Electrosurgical grounding pad

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A grounding electrode useful in electrosurgery and easily contoured to body surfaces which comprises a flexible perforated metal sheet, the lower side of which is coated with a conductive adhesive and the upper side of which is adhesively secured to a fenestrated film said fenestrated, film being adhesively secured to an open cell polymeric foam and a conductive snap or button for conducting an electrical current secured to said metal sheet and extending through said fenestrated film and said polymeric foam. Preferably the metal sheet is aluminum foil, the conductive adhesive is a quaternary polymer and said open cell foam is polyurethane.