 Some large medical systems such as Kaiser Permanente Northern California  and professional medical societies such as the Society of Gynecologic Oncology  and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) have endorsed complete bilateral salpingectomy as the preferred means of female sterilization.While complete bilateral salpingectomy theoretically should have an efficacy rate that approaches 100 percent and eliminates the risk of tubal ectopic pregnancy, there is not high quality data available comparing this method to older methods.This method uses electric current to cauterize sections of the fallopian tube, with or without subsequent division of the tube.