Experimental investigations of a manually versus an electrically driven skull drill for bedside usage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Manual skull drilling is an old but in modern neurosurgery still established procedure which can be applied quickly and universally in emergency situations. Electrical drilling requires more complex equipment and is usually reserved to the Operating Room (OR). It also seems desirable to apply an electrical drill for bedside usage but a suitable product does not exist so far.

Method

Our experimental study using a manually and an electrically driven skull drill included a total of 40 holes drilled into synthetic biomechanical sheets. Half of the holes were produced with a prototype electrical drilling machine of the company Kaiser Technology and half of them with a traditional manual drill. Different drilling parameters such as the geometry of the borehole, the dril

SUBMITTER: Carolus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6472766 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature