ArthroCare Quantum 2 ESU System With Footswitch

The QUANTUM™ 2 system QUANTUM COBLATION™ technology takes arthroscopic surgery to an elevated level by giving you the power and control you require to handle whatever you find, in every joint you treat. 

COBLATION™ technology, controlled ablation, offers an alternative from other radiofrequency electrosurgical techniques that cut or remove tissue by delivering large amounts of energy or heat in order to desiccate and pyrolyze tissue to be removed. 2 COBLATION devices establish a plasma layer of reactive particles that disrupt organic molecular bonds in target tissue, and rapidly disintegrate the tissue, resulting in volumetric removal of tissue with minimal damage to collateral tissue.1 3 The COBLATION plasma layer is created by current flowing between closely-spaced, bipolar electrodes. This current forms a high density energy field that rapidly vaporizes a thin layer of a conductive liquid (saline or Ringer’s lactate solution) at the surface of the electrode into a glow discharge plasma of very reactive and energized ions and electrons. Multi-electrode technology provides the three key requirements for the clinically-effective COBLATION plasma layer: