My daughter just had to go thru a surgery involving cranial bone removal. I'm sending this video to her surgeon and their department head right freaking now. Amazing tech!
IN 1987, my dad went in for a back operation. They were fusing L5 through L2. At some point in the operation, the surgeon's drill nicked the dural sac, causing a bundle of nerves to "burst out" (according to the surgeon), resulting in him losing complete mobility below the waist. He was left in extreme pain, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 2 years later, he went under the knife again. This resulted in him being able to move his legs again (though walking was a long, uphill struggle he finally achieved after a couple more years) but he was still left in extreme pain daily. 2 years ago, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The doctors told him there were several options for treatment but he refused all of them. My step mother, Lynne, died in 2008, taking a huge portion of his heart. He lived with extreme physical pain and loneliness every day. He told me, in his last months, he was happy he got brain cancer because it would mean he'd finally be out of pain and back with the love of his life.
If that damned drill had been like the one in this video, maybe my dad would still be here. I don't know for sure, but not having to fight his pain *as well* as his loneliness certainly could ha
There's a lot of post-surgical complications that have come from minor slip-ups and damage made by the tools used, even by the highest of professionals. And the better said professional gets at avoiding damage, the more stringent and demanding of procedures they are thrown into, which leads into damage because it was nigh-unavoidable due to what's needed. This would help so much and make so many more types of operations viable. It's not just about turning around surgeries faster, but also being able to perform surgeries that you'd only trust 5 people in the whole country to do otherwise. This actually saves lives and improves patient lives from operations that they would have never gotten otherwise or needed to be on a waitlist for years to get one of the few doctors capable of doing it without too much damage.
My daughter has had two surgeries on her spine and will need one more. The fear of requiring someone to grind away at these bones terrifies her. Knowing how close they need to approach her spine is crazy. This technology is amazing!!!
I kinda love that Shabab is such a poor salesman. You literally had to put the words in his mouth why surgeons should buy this over the competing products. He just builds the best tools and lets them speak for themselves
7:37 atleast in rough milling applications reducing flutes will also reduce chater, and they seem to have gone from allot of flutes to a single flute in their Halo cutter
This is genius! I hope these drill bits will become the standard, making the life of the surgeons a lot less stressful and maybe giving the patients better chances of not getting important stuff accidentally damaged
Well I've just recommended this video to a couple of medical students studying in the neurosurical department of the lab I work in.
This thing looks awesome and can almost certainly improve the quality of their experimental model.
Thanks for covering things you simply find cool and never change! I always love watching your videos!
Steve is becoming Tom, being invited to show us cool stuff and cutting edge technology. Pun was not intended, it came out naturally as I was writing the sentence.
Me and Bijan made up in the end but I had wet socks the whole day.
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If that damned drill had been like the one in this video, maybe my dad would still be here. I don't know for sure, but not having to fight his pain *as well* as his loneliness certainly could ha
This thing looks awesome and can almost certainly improve the quality of their experimental model.
Thanks for covering things you simply find cool and never change! I always love watching your videos!
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