Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference (한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2004.10a
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- Pages.1186-1189
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- 2004
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- 2005-8446(pISSN)
Development of Irrigation Pump System Used for Arthroscopy Surgery
관절경 수술을 위한 주입 펌프 시스템 개발
Abstract
A new pump used in arthroscopy surgery was developed. The pump is driven by pneumatic air compressor and controlled by a stepper motor connected to an air regulator. Pressure control performance was observed to be similar compared to commercially available artheroscopy pumps. However, pressure pulses observed in the commercial pumps driven by multiple rollers disappeared in the pneumatically driven pump. The new pump required containers to enclose and squeeze saline solution packs. A dramatic saving in manufacture cost is expected considering the simple pneumatic drive used in this pump.