Module 3: Instruments

Question 1

Use for anatomical dissection

Answer 1

Scalpel/Knife

Question 2

Designed for easy removal of sutures

Answer 2

Suture/Stitch scissors

Question 3

Used for cutting sutures

Answer 3

Mayo

Question 4

To size bandages and dressings; medical gauze

Answer 4

Bandage scissors

Question 5

Used for cutting delicate tissue

Answer 5

Metzenbaum

Question 6

Used for grasping moderate to heavy tissue; for wound closure

Answer 6

Forceps with teeth

Question 7

To grasp dense tissue

Answer 7

Russian tissue forceps

Question 8

To grasp tissue in vascular procedure

Answer 8

Debakey tissue forceps

Question 9

Use to grasp DELICATE tissue

Answer 9

Babcock

Question 10

Use to hold or grasp heavy tissue

Answer 10

Allis

Question 11

Used for grasping tough, FIBROUS, SLIPPERY TISSUES such as muscles and fascia

Answer 11

Kocher

Question 12

Used for creating a sponge stick; grasping tissues such as lungs and uterine contents

Answer 12

Ovum / Foerster

Question 13

Use for grasping and removing kidney stone, gallstone, gallstone, and polyps

Answer 13

Randall stone forceps

Question 14

Used to hold or pick up small pieces of tissues such as end of the arteries

Answer 14

Tenaculum

Question 15

Allows easier placement of ligature; temporary occlusion of vessel

Answer 15

Curved mosquito

Question 16

Allow easier placement of ligatures around the forceps

Answer 16

Curved mosquito

Question 17

To hold delicate tissues and use in most surgical procedure

Answer 17

Straight mosquito

Question 18

Used to ‘occlude bleeding’ before ligation

Answer 18

Kelly clamp

Question 19

Used for exposing superficial wound

Answer 19

Senh

Question 20

Retract incisions that are small or shallow

Answer 20

Army navy

Question 21

Used for deep wound retraction

Answer 21

Deaver

Question 22

Using for holding back multiple layers of deep tissue

Answer 22

Richardson

Question 23

Hold an incision or wound open during abdominal surgery

Answer 23

Balfour