surgical assisting 1

Question 1

boxlock

Answer 1

moveable joint of a ringed instrument

Question 2

residual activity

Answer 2

continued bacterial activity that persists after antiseptic or disinfectant is applied

Question 3

ratchet

Answer 3

locking portion of an instrument near the finger rings

Question 4

intramedullary pin

Answer 4

pin placed in the medullary cavity of a long bone

Question 5

electrosurgery

Answer 5

the use of electrical current to cut and or cauterize

Question 6

trephine

Answer 6

t shaped tubular instrument deigned to remove a core of bone for biopsy

Question 7

curette

Answer 7

instrument with a sharp , cupped head used to scrape surfaces

Question 8

serration

Answer 8

saw like edge or border

Question 9

aseptic technique

Answer 9

precautions taken to prevent contamination of a surgical site

Question 10

cautery

Answer 10

application of heat to destroy tissue and provide hemostasis

Question 11

refractor

Answer 11

instrument used to hold back tissue

Question 12

hemostatic forceps

Answer 12

locking instruments used to grasp vessels and tissues to control bleeding

Question 13

rongeus

Answer 13

forceps with sharp cupped jaws used to break of small pieces of bone

Question 14

cerclage wire

Answer 14

band of metal used to encircle bone in the repair of fractures

Question 15

thumb forceps

Answer 15

tweezer like , non liking, instrument used to gently grasp tissue or dressing

Question 16

scalpel

Answer 16

instruments used to make most incisions

Question 17

electrosurgery

Answer 17

allows surgeon to cut while simulating taneously limiting bleeding through electrocoagulation

Question 18

surgical scissors

Answer 18

among the most commonly used surgical instruments in small and large animal surgery

Question 19

mayo dissecting scissors

Answer 19

heavy duty operating scissors used primarily for cutting fascia and other more dense tissues . straight blades or curved, blunt or sharp , plain or serrated

Question 20

metzenbaum dissecting scissors

Answer 20

fine, straight or curved scissors used for cutting delicate tissue,such as fat or thin muscle, rounded points, plain blades

Question 21

stitch scissors or littauer suture removal scissors

Answer 21

used to cut all sutures except wire sutures

Question 22

lister bandage scissors

Answer 22

available to cut bandage material, one blade blunted,

Question 23

olsen hegar

Answer 23

needle driver , contain built in scissors increasing surgery speed time , and surgeon can work alone

Question 24

mayo hegar needle holders

Answer 24

dont have built in scissors

Question 25

brown adson thumb forceps

Answer 25

multiple intermeshing teeth with a broad tip to provide good tissue and suture needle handling for most routine surgeries

Question 26

rat tooth thumb forceps

Answer 26

have large interdigitating teeth and used for skin or fascia

Question 27

adson thumb forceps

Answer 27

delicat eintermeshing teeth that provide a good, atraumatic, grasp of delicate tissues commonly used during dissection

Question 28

cooley or debakey thumb forceps

Answer 28

long , narrow jaws, with multiple delicate sets of teeth good for vascular surgery

Question 29

russian thumb forceps

Answer 29

broad curved surface, good for needle handling

Question 30

allis tissue forceps

Answer 30

securely grasp tissue, cause tissue crushing, use only in tissue removal ,secure drapes and tissue

Question 31

babcock forceps

Answer 31

similar in shape to alis less traumatic

Question 32

halstead mosquito hemostats

Answer 32

small and designed to occlude small vessels

Question 33

crile hemostat forceps

Answer 33

contain transverse grooves that extend the entire length of jaws

Question 34

kelly hemostat forceps

Answer 34

contain groves associated with only the distal most aspect of jaws

Question 35

rochester ochsner hemostat forceps

Answer 35

have interdigitating teeth at the tips that aid in grasping tissue

Question 36

rochester carmalt forceps

Answer 36

large, crushing forceps with longitudinal grooves nd cross groves at tip , used for clamping across tissue that contains vessels

Question 37

gelpi and weitlaner retractors

Answer 37

self retaining retractors used for muscle retraction

Question 38

balfour retractor

Answer 38

provides increased exposure to abdominal cavity

Question 39

gigli wire

Answer 39

used to cut bone by wrapping it around and using sawing motion