Method for coating electrosurgical tissue sealing device with non-stick coating

A method for reprocessing a coated electrosurgical device:

• placing an electrically conductive component of an electrosurgical device into a plasma deposition chamber
• supplying a first ionizable media into the plasma deposition chamber;
• igniting the first ionizable media to generate a first plasma at a first power level to remove a previously-used coating from the electrically conductive component;
• supplying a second ionizable media into the plasma deposition chamber;
• igniting the second ionizable media to generate a second plasma at a second power level to prepare the electrically conductive component to receive a non-stick polydimethylsiloxane coating;
• supplying the second ionizable media and a precursor composition into the plasma deposition chamber;
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• igniting the second ionizable media and the precursor composition to generate a third plasma at a third power level thereby forming the non-stick polydimethylsiloxane coating having a thickness from about 35 nm to about 85 nm on the electrically conductive component.