Items Needed
S-2 Supplement: CUSA Excel Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator System User’s Guide
Here is some information that may help:
• Use the same procedure to assemble the 23kHz straight, 23kHz angled,
and 36kHz handpieces.
• Handpiece cable connectors, manifold tubing packaging, tip/flue
packaging, CEM nosecone packaging, slots in the tip torquing bases,
and sterile torque wrenches are color coded:
23kHz green
36kHz blue
• Recommended: When you assemble a handpiece, assemble at least one
backup handpiece.
Items Needed
You need the following items to change tips on the sterile field:
• Sterilized handpiece(s)
• Sterilized standard nosecone or sterile CEM nosecone
• Sterile tip/flue pack(s)
• Sterilized tip torquing base
• Sterile torque wrench (23 kHz or 36 kHz)
• Sterile manifold tubing.
The following figures illustrate these items.
Figure 1.
The sterilized handpiece
Figure 2.
The sterilized standard nosecone and
the sterile CEM nosecones
Connector
Connecting body
Handpiece body
Cable
Standard
23 kHz CEM,
coag
36 kHz CEM,
coag only