What is a bone drill?
A bone drill is a medical device for intraossary access. With intraossary access or intraossary infusion, medication or liquids are administered directly into the bone marrow. A bone drill is used for this necessary puncture.
When is a bone drill used?
The use of a bone drill for intraossary access is an important alternative if, due to difficult environmental conditions or patient -specific aspects such as obesity, vascular damage, difficult puncture in children is not possible by venous access via a vein cannula. In an emergency, all common medication, liquids and blood products can be administered intraosently, and blood samples are also possible.
What are the advantages of a bone drill?
- High success rates (> 80 %) with a low risk of complication. Every medication and any kind of volume can be administered.
- You can reach the same stop times as in intravenous administration.
- User -friendly and quickly learned.
How do you use a bone drill?
1. Find puncture position
Which puncture site is suitable depends on access to the patient (e.g. trapped) and possible pre -damage (e.g. fractures). The upper arm bone (humerus) must be preferred in terms of flow rates and control of infusion pain.
Important: don't bend the arm more than 45 °!
2. Disinfection of the puncture site
Disinfect the puncture point with disinfectant and at least 30 seconds. let absorb. In the event of awakening patients, the skin can be anesthetized 1-2% with lidocaine. Lidocaine is a local -effective narcotics (local anesthetic).
3. Preparation EZ-IO Bohrer
Open the selected needle and dock the EZ-IO drill to the needle end. The needle remains on the drill through magnetic attraction. You can then remove the protective cap on the needle.
4. Drilling process
- With one hand you stabilize the part of the body in which you drill. With the other hand you hold the running drill.
- Push the needle tip of the skin vertically until the needle touches the bone. If the marking 5 mm away from the connection is visible above the skin, you have chosen the correct needle length. Otherwise the needle is too short.
- Drill with uniform pressure, do not stop. As soon as the plastic body touches the skin or a sudden decrease in resistance is felt, stop drilling machine.
5. Removal of the EZ-IO drill and the stilt
With one hand you record the plastic body of the intraossädelel. With the other hand you remove the EZ-IO Bohrers and the stilette.
6. attaching the stabilizer and connecting the infusion management
Enter the stabilizer of the infusion management. So you can ensure a secure hold of the EZ-OCO needle.
Then connect the infusion management to the needle. Rinse the infusion management with an isotonic saline NACL 0.9 %.
7. Perform medication injection
You need this accessories for your bone drill
EZ-II stabilizer pin fixation: The EZ-II stabilizer is used to fix the EZ-II intraosine needle. It stabilizes the cannulas z. B. in the event of movements of awakening patients or relocations if the needle has not been drilled in to the attachment.
EZ-IO infusion needle: You will find three different needle sizes in the infusion needle set. You get an EZ stabilizer pavement for the needle set. The EZ stabilizer pavement enables you to secure the EZ-IPO needle for the intraosine vascular access.
Storage bag: In the right storage bag, you can safely store your bone drill including replacement needles.
Bone drill EZ-IO training set: So that you are prepared for an emergency, you can practice training set with our bone drill. The EZ -II training set helps medical specialists to learn the handles with bone drills and needles safely.
EZ-io training infusion needle: There are also replacement infusion needles for the EZ-IO training set.