Tool Time !

Hi,

Doctors have been using cordless power tools in the O.R. for while now. Cordless drills are very popular for surgical bone operations, like knee and hip replacements.

Heck even the Paramedics carry a small cordless drill that we use for starting an I.V. on "dead" patients during certain cardiac events.

dalee
 
When my father was a small boy he was out in a rowboat fishing with his father when his father hooked him on his backcast. Big bass plug, six inches (15cm) long with big treble hooks hanging off it -- and one of the hooks went into the boy's eyelid.

It wasn't in his eye, only in the eyelid. My grandfather could have taken the needle-nose pliers from his tackle box and pulled it out, but he was scared to, naturally, so he rowed to shore and drove my father to the doctor, with the plug hanging off his eyelid all the way.

The doctor looked at it, and went out to his car and got some needle-nose pliers out of his toolbox and hoiked it out.
 
Cougar Allen said:
When my father was a small boy he was out in a rowboat fishing with his father when his father hooked him on his backcast. Big bass plug, six inches (15cm) long with big treble hooks hanging off it -- and one of the hooks went into the boy's eyelid.

It wasn't in his eye, only in the eyelid. My grandfather could have taken the needle-nose pliers from his tackle box and pulled it out, but he was scared to, naturally, so he rowed to shore and drove my father to the doctor, with the plug hanging off his eyelid all the way.

The doctor looked at it, and went out to his car and got some needle-nose pliers out of his toolbox and hoiked it out.
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Hi,

Yeah, what ever it takes to do the job! Last summer, we where finishing up a run to a hospital. The duty Doctor stuck his head out of the exam room and asked me if we had a better side cutter than his bent up needle-nose pliers. He to was trying to remove a big treble hook. I went to our rig and dug in the small tool box we carry. Couldn't find our side-cutters, but we had a 12" bolt cutter. So I brought it into the Doc. He got a huge smile and said, "That will work"! 30 seconds later out he comes still smiling with the bolt cutter. Wish I could have seen the patients face.:D

dalee
 
Well since DeWalt is now a subsidiary of Black & Decker it's not wrong to say it either way.
 
dalee100 said:
Hi,

Doctors have been using cordless power tools in the O.R. for while now. Cordless drills are very popular for surgical bone operations, like knee and hip replacements.

Heck even the Paramedics carry a small cordless drill that we use for starting an I.V. on "dead" patients during certain cardiac events.

dalee
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Last time I did a burr hole was with a brace and bit, slow but easy to control. Few years back now...

Same era I remember seeing a hardware store bought SkilDrill used for orthopedic work. Coped with the sterilisaion process fine and a damn sight cheaper than the proprietary orthopaedic ones...
 
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