Surgery is more and more frequently affected through minimal access points, either through trocar tubes or through natural body orifices. This requires instruments which, on the one hand, have the necessary stability and on the other hand, are sufficiently fine to ensure that the surgical areas are always visible despite of the small access.
In cases where bipolar forceps cannot be used e.g. for bipolar coagulation of diffusely bleeding areas in the nose, a new generation of electrodes have been developed with a shaft diameter of only 2 mm. Micro-bipolar electrodes enable the surgeon to cauterize bleeding in an effective and safe way even in the smallest cavities.