Cautery for cutting and coagulation across all surgical specialties.
The range above is an indicative planning figure taken from our own research, not a quotation and not an offer. buytogethr is pre-launch and has closed no pools.
Each theatre buys a generator with its footswitch, pencils, return electrodes, cables and cart. Quotes differ on output power and the mode set - monopolar cutting and coagulation, blend, bipolar, and vessel sealing where it is used - on whether output is impedance-controlled, on the number of independent outputs, on return electrode contact monitoring, and on smoke evacuation. Comparing generators on wattage alone is the standard mistake. The decision that matters commercially is the accessory interface: a unit with proprietary connectors commits the theatre to one supplier's plates and pencils for the machine's whole life. Compatibility with the laparoscopic and vessel-sealing handpieces already in use should be confirmed before the order, not after delivery.
It suits pooling. Every theatre needs one, the specification is electrical and testable, and clinical preference weighs less here than it does on anaesthesia or imaging equipment. The point of pooling is not really the generator price, which is modest against the rest of the theatre. It is that the generator dictates a consumable stream for a decade, so an aggregated tender should require plates, pencils and cables to be priced for the contract term alongside the unit. A group also has the standing to insist on open accessory connections, which a single hospital ordering one machine almost never obtains.