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When I’ve had surgery that was the joke the doctor told. It’s just a $10,000 version of a tool you’d pick up at Home Depot. Obviously there are some things tha
by spookthesunset 4y ago
When I’ve had surgery that was the joke the doctor told. It’s just a $10,000 version of a tool you’d pick up at Home Depot.
Obviously there are some things that would be different. For example a big issue is you’d want to use non-toxic lubricant on all the parts. Not sure what non-toxic means but I’m sure there is something (vegetable oil? Silicone?)
You’d also want to make sure it won’t fling off tiny metal or plastic shards from the tool. Don’t want that to get into the body. You’d probably have to seal up any ventilation openings in such a way that crap couldn’t escape.
I’m sure mechanically you’d want it to be as tight of tolerance as you could get away with—you probably don’t want a lot of slop when cutting open some dudes skull. Vibration and such probably play into that tolerance bit…
Of course it could just literally be a rebranded Ryobi or something for all I know. But I’m pretty sure it isn’t. Too many additional requirements means it is probably something slightly fancier.
- devilbunny 4y agoThe ones used in the operating room are different, but for putting traction pins in broken legs (in mid-shaft femur fractures, they will put a pin through the lower part of the femur and hang weights off the end of the bed to straighten the fracture out until the patient can go to surgery), they just use a regular cordless drill since the procedure is not fully sterile.