HARMONIC^® Technology gives you the precise dissection you need to create tissue flaps, eliminates the need for electrosurgery and, with minimal thermal damage, it provides important recovery benefits for your reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery patients.

Depending on the procedure, our HARMONIC Devices may reduce postoperative pain, drainage, bruising and swelling, while improving the overall plastic surgery experience.*^,†,‡

HARMONIC Technology:

Mechanical, not electrical energy

• Precisely directed mechanical energy – a blade vibrating at 55,500 Hz – denatures tissue and transforms it into a sticky coagulum.
• Pressure from the blade surface collapses blood vessels and allows the coagulum to form a reliable hemostatic seal.
• No electricity passes to or through your patients, eliminating current induced neuromuscular stimulation and the need for a grounding pad.

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Minimal thermal tissue damage

• HARMONIC Devices operate at a lower temperature compared to electrosurgery.
• Minimal lateral thermal spread, or spread of heat from the HARMONIC Blade to adjacent tissue.

You control the tissue effect

• You control cutting and coagulating precision by varying the power level, blade edge, tissue tension, blade pressure and the time on tissue.

Our HARMONIC Devices have been used worldwide in more than 10 million surgical procedures in a variety of specialties, including plastic surgery, general surgery, urology, gynecology, head and neck surgery, and thoracic surgery and have been cited in 590 clinical articles.

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* In abdominoplasties. From a randomized, prospective, parallel-group study (N=65), mean cumulative serous secretion volume (517.8mL ± 236.0 mL vs 767.5 mL ± 522.7 mL; P=0.009) and the duration of drains (124.5 h ± 44.6 h vs 159.26 h ± 88.5 h; P=0.039) were significantly lower with HARMONIC Technology (n=35) than with electrosurgery (n=30). Patients in the HARMONIC Technology group also reported less postoperative pain than the electrosurgery group, with significant reductions occurring on day 1 (mean pain score: 3.4 vs 2.0; P<0.05) and day 2 (mean pain score: 2.6 vs 1.7; P<0.05). The use of analgesics (opioid and non-opioid) was similar between groups.^1
† In modified radical mastectomies. From a randomized, prospective, preliminary study (N=23), mean cumulative serous secretion volume (590mL ± 430 mL vs 1085 mL ± 690 mL; P=0.0194) and the duration of drains (5 days ± 3 days vs 9 days ± 7 days; P<0.001) were significantly lower with HARMONIC Technology (n=23) than with electrosurgery (n=23) when performing modified radical mastectomies.^9
‡ In an independent study (N=420), range of return to social life 5-20 days after facelift procedure. All procedures were performed by the primary author with the HARMONIC^® Curved Blade.³⁴