Unusual use for a Bosch cordless drill

[BradNaylor]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3559479.ece


I hope he uses a depth-stop...

 

[PowerTool]

:lol: :lol:

I can imagine the new advertsing campaign now.. "The new Bosch cordless - less strain on you brain" or "Which drill to choose? - the new Bosch of course,it's a no-brainer.."

:wink:

Andrew

 

[OPJ]

Sounds like he could do with an impact driver, if the battery keeps dying half-way through...

Next, we'll be hearing about another Eastern-European surgeon removing the top-half of someone's skull with the Fein Multimaster! :wink:

 

[Smudger]

Mine came with two batteries...

Apart from any problems there may be in sterilising a drill like that, it is difficult to justify spending £30,000 for the air-powered drill he uses in the UK.

 

[BradNaylor]

Sounds like he could do with an impact driver, if the battery keeps dying half-way through...

Next, we'll be hearing about another Eastern-European surgeon removing the top-half of someone's skull with the Fein Multimaster! :wink:

So that's how Hannibal Lechter did it in that book...

 

[jonny boy]

Tight wad!! on a surgeons wages, you would have thought he'd got a lithium- ion drill.

jon.

 

[Mark.R]

:shock: :shock: Just imagine that cheap drill slipping over to hammer mode half way through! :roll: :roll:

 

[Alan Smith]

My proper day job is being a vet although I prefer to play at being a joiner. I think you would be surprised at the apparently everyday tools that find their way into an operating theatre and not just a veterinary theatre either. My first exposure to battery powered drills was in practice when they first came out and were very expensive. Fein multimasters get used, as do Foredom shaft drive hand pieces. Most of the time the body of the drill/multimaster whatever is shrouded in a sterile pouch so it an be handled by the surgeon. For drills a special Jacobs chuck in SS with an extension tube can be sterilised and then attached when needed to the already shrouded drill. Commonest use for the multimaster is opening up tortoise tummies!

 

[OPJ]

This also reminds me of an episode of 24 (Day 6), where someone's being tortured by having an over-sized auger bit driven in to there back, using a Metabo driver - which was beginning to stall!! :shock: :?

 

[BradNaylor]

My proper day job is being a vet although I prefer to play at being a joiner. I think you would be surprised at the apparently everyday tools that find their way into an operating theatre and not just a veterinary theatre either. My first exposure to battery powered drills was in practice when they first came out and were very expensive. Fein multimasters get used, as do Foredom shaft drive hand pieces. Most of the time the body of the drill/multimaster whatever is shrouded in a sterile pouch so it an be handled by the surgeon. For drills a special Jacobs chuck in SS with an extension tube can be sterilised and then attached when needed to the already shrouded drill. Commonest use for the multimaster is opening up tortoise tummies!

Multimasters are commonly used for removing plaster casts from broken limbs. I don't think they use a standard E-cut blade though!

All in all, surgery and carpentry have a lot in common...

 

[OPJ]

This has turned in to a quite fascinating thread!

I wonder what sort of training surgeons have to take in order use tools like this? What percentage of all accidents in the hospital environment are "power tool-related"? :wink: