Instruments Flashcards
What are these called? What are they used for?
Mayo Scissors
Cutting heavy fascia
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What are they used for?
Metzenbaum scissors
For cutting delicate tissue
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What are they used for?
Sharp blunt scissors
For cutting suture material and other things that are not tissue
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What are they used for?
Olsen-Hegar needle holder
Combination of needle holders and scissors
Used for driving the needle and then cutting the suture without having to change instruments
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What are they used for?
Mayo-hegar needle holder
Needle drivers
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What are they used for?
Halsted mosquito haemostats
Compress blood vessel to reduce or stop the flow of blood
What are these called?
What are they used for?
Crile haemostats
Medium sized haemostat that is used during surgery to compress a blood vessel to reduce or stop the flow of blood
What are these called?
What are they used for?
Kelly forceps
Medium sized haemostat that is used during surgery to compress a blood vessel to reduce or stop the flow of blood
What are the difference between Crile and Kelly forceps?
The serrations on the inside of the grips on a Kelly only go half way
While the serrations on a Crile go all the way to the hinge
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What are they used for?
Rochester carmalt haemostats
Has longitudinal grooves and are large haemostats
Clamps large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels.
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What are they used for?
Weitlaner self-retaining retractor
Used for holding tissue planes apart without the need for an assistant
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What are they used for?
Gelpi self-retaining retractor
Used for holding tissue planes apart without the need for an assistant
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What are they used for?
Balfour self-retaining retractor
Holding tissue planes apart without the need of an assistant - for abdominal exposure
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What is it used for?
Hohmann retractor
Handheld instrument to retract tissues to expose bone
What is this called?
What are they used for?
Senn retractor
A handheld instrument suitable for short-term displacement of soft tissue
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What are they used for?
Adson tissue forceps
For tissue handling - have teeth to miminise trauma
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What are they used for?
Rat-tooth forceps
For tissue handling - have teeth to miminise trauma
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What are they used for?
Dressing forceps
Pick up gauze and non-tissue objects
Can be crushing to tissue since you need a fair amount of force to hold tissue with these
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What are they used for?
Debakey forceps
Atraumatic tissue forceps used to grasp fine tissue.
E.g vessels, urinary bladder, intestines
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What are they used for?
Allis tissue forceps
For grasping fascia and tendons
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What are they used for?
Doyen intestinal forceps
Non-crushing intestinal occluding forceps
Used to temporarily occlude lumen of bowel
