Device for controlling the irrigation pressure

A device for use in eye surgery comprising a gas pressure device for providing a variable initial pressure (PA), a fluid container for providing a fluid for rinsing an eye, wherein the fluid container is connected to a surgical handpiece on a side which is lower in the operating position in order to deliver the fluid into the eye at an irrigation pressure (PI) predeterminable by the surgeon, wherein the fluid container is connected to a connecting element on a side which is upper in the operating position, wherein the fluid container communicates with a gas phase container via a mandrel of the connecting element on a lower side of the gas phase container and wherein the gas phase container and/or the fluid container exhibit(s) a gas phase and the gas phase communicates with the gas pressure device via the connecting element or a fluid container line, whereby the irrigation pressure (PI) of the surgical handpiece is adjustable via the variable initial pressure (PA) of the gas pressure device, wherein a first channel and a second channel are formed in the connecting element, wherein the gas phase container is connected with the surroundings thereof or to the gas pressure device via the first channel and wherein the second channel connects the gas phase container and the fluid container, and wherein the first channel and the second channel are realized within the mandrel as one tube and comprise substantially the same length.