Abstract: A single-use surgical irrigation system for use with a surgical tool and including a sleeve to be slidably received over the tool, a fluid reservoir for storing a irrigation and cooling liquid, a tube mounted on the sleeve for conducting fluid from the reservoir to a dispensing tip at an opposing end of the tube, the dispensing tip configurable to aim the stream of ejected fluid in one or a plurality of directions. A flow control mechanism controls the volume of fluid flowing from the nozzle portion.