Hemostats and Forceps Flashcards
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Halsted Mosquito Hemostats - To clamp small vessels that must be occluded, crushed or held firmly.
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Crile Hemostats - To occlude vessels such as small uterine horns or small to medium sized blood vessels.
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Kelly Hemostats - To clamp medium to large blood vessels or manipulating heavy tissue.
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Rochester Carmalt Hemostats - To clamp large tissue bundles that have a lumen or contain blood vessels.
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Forester Sponge-Holding Forceps - To handle sterile dressings to provide hemostasis. Its length allows the user to reach far into a body cavity.
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Jones Towel Clamp - To secure drapes to the patient’s skin by means of a small puncture.
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Backhaus Towel Clamps - To secure drapes to the patient’s skin by means of a small puncture.
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Alligator Forceps - To reach deep into an animal’s body to retrieve a foreign object and for compressing or grasping tissues and handling sterile dressing.
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Allis Tissue Forceps - To hold with maximal power; for grasping organs and slippery or dense tissue during electrosurgery.
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Dressing Forceps - To grasp inanimate objects such as dressing or nonviable tissues; this forceps causes significant damage to viable tissue.
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Brown-Adson Tissue Forceps - To pick up, hold, and maneuver delicate tissues and holding skin during suturing. These cause more trauma
to skin than Adson Forceps.
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Adson Tissue Forceps - To pick up, hold and maneuver delicate tissues and skin during suturing.
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Rat Tooth Forceps - To grasp skin and other dense tissues so as to place sutures. Forceps of this description can cause extensive damage to delicate tissue.
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Kelly Hemostats - To clamp medium to large blood vessels or manipulating heavy tissue.
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Rochester Carmalt Hemostats - To clamp large tissue bundles that have a lumen or contain blood vessels.
