TISSUE TEAR DETECTION AND OPERATOR FEEDBACK

Abstract

A surgical system is described that includes an electrosurgical instrument and a controller that can function to monitor a current supplied to the electrosurgical instrument from a power supply, detect that the current reaches or exceeds a current threshold, compare a power rate supplied to the electrosurgical instrument from the power supply with a power rate threshold based on the current reaching or exceeding the current threshold, start a timer to measure the elapsed time based on the power rate being less than the power rate threshold, and perform an action based on the elapsed time reaching a time threshold.