DR Instruments Flashcards
A tool or device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it.
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
These instruments usually have sharp edges or tips to cut through skin, tissue, and suture material.
CUTTING AND DISSECTING
- Used to cut thick tissue, such as those found in the uterus, muscles, breast, and foot.
- Are placed in tissue with the tips closed.
- The scissors are then opened so that the tips open and spread out the tissue during the dissection process.
- Allow deeper penetration into the wound than the type with straight blades.
MAYO CURVE
- Designed for cutting body tissues near the surface of a wound.
- Also used for cutting sutures.
- “Suture scissors”
MAYO STRAIGHT
- Scissors that often have an angled tip with a blunt tip on the bottom blade.
- This helps in cutting bandages without gouging by the skin.
BANDAGE/EPISIOTOMY SCISSORS
These instruments are used in many surgical procedures for compressing blood vessels or hollow organs, to prevent their contents from leaking.
CLAMPING AND OCCLUDING
- Commonly used to remove placental fragments inside the uterus.
- Used as a hemostat or preventing blood flow from an open blood flow by compression of vessel.
OVUM FORCEPS
Hemostatic forceps designed for controlling bleeding and handling blood vessels during surgery.
MOSQUITO FORCEPS
- Primarily used for clamping large blood vessels or manipulating heavy tissue.
- Also used for soft tissue dissection.
- Can be used as a clamp, heat sink, or third hand.
KELLY FORCEPS
- Also called needle driver, is a surgical instrument, similar to a hemostat, used by doctors and surgeons to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures.
NEEDLE HOLDER
These surgical instruments are used to hold back, or retract organs and tissue so the surgeon has access to the operative area.
RETRACTING AND EXPOSING
Gynecologists use it to open the walls of the vagina and examine the vagina and cervix.
VAGINAL SPECULUM
Used to grasp and hold tissue or blood vessels that may be in the way during a surgical procedure.
GRASPING AND HOLDING
- A surgical instrument with sharp teeth, used to hold or grasp heavy tissue.
- Also used to grasp fascia and soft tissues such as breast or bowel tissue.
ALLIS FORCEPS
- Toothed at the tip is used for handling dense tissue, such as in skin closures. Also called “locking forceps”, these are ratcheted instruments used to hold tissue or objects, or provide hemostasis.
TOOTHED TISSUE FORCEPS
Used for fine handling tissue and traction during dissection.
NON-TOOTHED TISSUE FORCEPS
Designed to hold sterile towels as close to the incision as possible.
- Also used to fix suction tubes, diathermy wires, and laparoscopic cables with the draping materials.
TOWEL CLIPS
- Shallow basin with a kidney-shaped base and sloping walls used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste.
- Commonly used to receive delivered placenta for assessment after vaginal delivery or caesarian section.
KIDNEY/EMESIS BASIN
- A surgical instrument designed for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure.
- In form, it is a small hand tool similar in shape to a stylus; at the tip of it is a small scoop, hook, or gouge.
CURETTE
Used for scraping endometrial cavity to obtain sample for histopathology.
CURETTE
Used in gynecology
SHARP CURETTE
Used in pregnancy check curettage.
BLUNT CURETTE
Done commonly for Menorrhagia, Endometrial Carcinoma, Infertility, Tuberculosis of endometrium.
DIAGNOSTIC D & C
Has a secondary beneficial advantage of reducing the bleeding in menorrhagia.
CURETTE
- A device for sounding of the uterus and used to avoid perforation.
- The polyethylene cursor is designed for accurate and easy reading of the uterine depth.
HYSTEROMETER
- Used to scratch and hold vault/cervix
- Steadying the cervix and uterus, as done during insertion of IUD during surgical abortion.
TENACULUM FORCEPS
- Stabilize the cervix to allow passage of sound and IUD through the OS.
- Straighten any irregularities in the cervical canal.
- Straighten uterine curvatures or flexion.
TENACULUM FORCEPS
