Abstract: The apparatus of the invention enables positioning a drilling guide parallel to the axes of transversal holes in the broach without seeing the holes. To this effect the drilling guide is adjustable with one degree of freedom on a mounting, the adjustment being effected as a function of positional information relating to the axis of the hole and sensed by mechanical feeler means which may be inserted into the broach. After this positioning is done by the apparatus according to the invention, a translation of the drilling guide may be done quickly by any conventional means in order to compensate for the distance between the axis of the drilling guide and the axis of the hole.

Abstract: The drain of this invention includes a tube provided with orifices for drawing in residual secretions gathered at the site of an operation. Within the tube is bounded a volume of variable capacity. Such volume is divided into one or several inflatable pockets bounded between the internal wall of the tube and a sleeve judiciously fastened to said wall. Such sleeve is of elastic material. A suction source is connected to the channel left free within the tube by the sleeve. Furthermore, a fluid source may be connected to the volume bounded by the sleeve to enable changing the capacity thereof. Such changes serve to unclog the intake orifices.The invention is applicable to surgical drains used in the post-operational phase to remove all secretions appearing at the site of the operation.