Bosch cordless drill for brain surgery

[Lobster]

From today's Sunday Times:

needs a Makita, anyway? ;-)

David

[The Medway Handyman]

Makita wouldn't have run out of charge half way through :-)

[grumpyat]

At least he had the common decency not to use the Impact Driver!...now that would make your eyes water

[Mary Fisher]

I don't know what was used when my brain tumour was removed but the whole procedure was explained in detail beforehand by the surgeon and I wasn't at all concerned - except to ask him to not go to any parties the night before. He went to his son's swimming gala.

Mary

[David in Normandy]

I'd fancy that about as much as an er.. hole in the head.

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[Mary Fisher]

I'd fancy that about as much as an er.. hole in the head.

Better than the alternative!

The hole in my skull was done with a circular saw part way round then broken - rather than trepanning. That means that the bone is fixed into place and heals better rather than the cut piece floating around.

Mary.

[David in Normandy]

Ouch! I can just picture the surgeon asking if you are thick skulled so he knows how deep to set the cutting depth on his Bosch circular saw :-)

This thread is starting to make me feel queasy.

[Mary Fisher]

I suspect that a good brain surgeon knows more about his patients' skulls than they do - after all I've never tried piercing it ...

I'm disappointed, I thought you'd be making some pointed comment, people usually do :-)

Mary

[Rod]

I suspect the "circular" saw was actually a reciprocating/oscillating device. Much safer near human tissue (like skin and muscle) than a true circular saw! (And definitely what they use for things like removal of plaster casts.) More like a Fein Multimaster... (cue many posts)

[Mary Fisher]

It wasn't near skin or muscle (not much of the latter on the side of my head!).

The skin etc. had been cut and peeled back, it formed a flap which was clipped to my forehead. I couldn't understand what that hole was until I worked it out and asked.

There were holes all over my body, with tubes going in and out. I reckoned that when all the normal ones were used up they simply made more. The one coming out of the back of my head and draining into a glass flask (honestly) was the most difficult to deal with, the flask wasn't comfortable to lie on.

Mary