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Irrigation system equipped on a high-speed air drill--technical note.

T Tsuzuki·H Yanai·C Kukita·H Samejima·Y Shinyama
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An irrigation system which can easily be applied to the conventional high-speed air drill was developed to allow simultaneous irrigation during micro-drilling. The irrigation system is constructed with a tube of 0.8 mm outer diameter and supporting rings. Irrigation is entirely coordinated with drilling by a single foot switch. The tube of the system ejects normal saline intermittently toward the cutter bar tip. Use of this system in skull base surgery showed that effective irrigation and a clean operative field was achieved even in a narrow space under the operating microscope, saline is ejected exactly on the point of drilling and over-heating does not occur so that heat-related damage to the local nerves and blood vessels is avoided. The system can easily be applied to any type of high-speed air drill by using supporting rings of the correct size. This irrigation system is particularly useful in microneurosurgery using the high-speed air drill.

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T Tsuzuki, H Yanai, C Kukita, H Samejima, Y Shinyama. 1998. Irrigation system equipped on a high-speed air drill--technical note.. https://doi.org/10.2176/nmc.38.173

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