Tool for drilling simple burr holes (trepanation) or for creating larger openings in the skull
Cranial drill
High-speed pneumatic surgical drill with cranial drill bit
Occupation
Activity sectors
Surgery, Craniotomy, Craniectomy
Description
Fields of employment
Hospitals, Clinics, Emergency Medicine
A cranial drill, also known as a craniotome, is a tool for drilling simple burr holes (trepanation) or for creating larger openings in the skull. This exposes the brain and allows operations like craniotomy and craniectomy to be done. The drill itself can be manually or electrically driven, and primarily consists of a handpiece and a drill bit which is a sharp tool that has a form similar to Archimedes' screw, this instrument must be inserted into the drill chuck to perform holes and remove materials. The trepanation tool is generally equipped with a clutch which automatically disengages once it touches a softer tissue, thus preventing tears in the dura mater. For larger openings, the craniotome is an instrument that has replaced manually pulled saw wires in craniotomies from the 1980s.
A cranialdrill, also known as a craniotome, is a tool for drilling simple burr holes (trepanation) or for creating larger openings in the skull. This...
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being performed. The bone flap is mostly removed with the help of a cranialdrill and a craniotome, then replaced using titanium plates and screws or...
places: for example, when a proper cranialdrill was not available, an Australian doctor used a handyman's drill in 2009 to open a hole in the head of...
it can heal. Trepanation instruments, nowadays being replaced with cranialdrills, are now available with diamond-coated rims, which are less traumatic...
cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of four types of bone i.e., cranial bones, facial bones, ear ossicles and hyoid bone, however two parts are...
became possible only upon the development of precision cutting tools, cranialdrills, and sophisticated post-operative care such as antibiotics. Though the...
anaesthetic)[citation needed] Craniotomies are holes drilled in the skull with the help of cranialdrills to remove intracranial hematomas or relieve pressure...
starts to compress intracranial structures, which may impinge on the third cranial nerve, causing a fixed and dilated pupil on the side of the injury. The...
needles, tips and tubes, for introducing fluid Powered devices, such as cranialdrills and dermatomes Scopes and probes, including fiber optic endoscopes and...
knee), based on its anatomical position, it is also referred to as the cranial cruciate ligament. The term cruciate translates to cross. This name is...
showed a combination of single and multiple elliptical holes drilled or worn into the cranial cap, performed exclusively on the upper Parietal bones. The...
because of striking thicker cranial bones or the teeth. Under nearly any condition, engaging an assailant with the Mozambique Drill should offer a high probability...
the cranial cruciate ligament of dogs. In animals the two cruciate ligaments that cross the inside of the knee joint are referred to as the cranial cruciate...
ancient Andean societies, the Paracas culture participated in artificial cranial deformation. Of the excavated and accessible skulls from the Paracas Cavernas...
Cranioplasty is a surgical operation on the repairing of cranial defects caused by previous injuries or operations, such as decompressive craniectomy...
have completely or partially ruptured the cranial cruciate ligament in one or both of their stifles. The cranial cruciate ligament connects the femur with...
effects of cannabis since the 1960s. She has experimented with trepanning, drilling a hole into the skull to expose the dura mater, a technique used in some...
with the aid of magnification and subsequently developed the first middle cranial fossa and then the translabyrinthine approach for the removal of acoustic...
Tuxtla Mountains. Cranial modification was one of the most important practices of the Olmec culture. Individuals enduring cranial modification could...
woodpeckers' cranial bone produces a significantly higher Young's modulus and ultimate strength scores compared to other birds its size. The cranial bone has...
Alternative Biogeographic Hypothesis Explaining Variation in Coat Color and Cranial Morphology in Lagothrix lugens (Primates: Atelidae). Primate Conservation...
dehiscent bone allowing the normal pulse-related pressure changes within the cranial cavity to enter the inner ear abnormally. These pressure changes affect...
identifying features of Homo floresiensis are its small body and small cranial capacity. Brown and Morwood also identified a number of additional, less...
"Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. II. All the cranial material...
face supplied by the fifth (V) cranial nerve (the trigeminal nerve) relay the information to the brain. The tenth (X) cranial nerve, (the vagus nerve) – part...
Trepan Records described itself as "the label of the cranially connected - dedicated to drilling a hole in the side of the British music industry to expose...
sphenoid bone; a neurosurgeon performs the rest of the surgery involving drilling into any cavities containing a neural organ such as the pituitary gland...
were performed on two femur fragments, HohleFels10 and HohleFels49, and a cranial fragment, HohleFels79. The two femur fragments possibly came from one individual...
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