Surgical instruments

Question 1

Mayo Scissors

Answer 1

• cut connective tissues and fascia and sutures
• longer blades and shorter handle

Question 2

Metzenbaum scissors

Answer 2

• Delicate tissue dissection
• Long handles short blades more often slightly cu

Question 3

Spencer Stitch Scissors

Answer 3

• small delicate scissors for suture removal
• One hooked end to pass under sutures with less disruption than something like mayo scissors

Question 4

Lister Scissors

Answer 4

• angled scissors with blunted ends for cutting bandages and dressings

Question 5

Mayo-Hegar Needle Holders

Answer 5

• used for holding needles and cutting sutures with the same instrument.
• Tip is needle holder further back on the jaws is the scissors

Question 6

Olson-Hegar Needle Holders

Answer 6

• used for holding needles during suturing
• has cross-hatched jaws all the way down no scissors
• has divot for needles to rest in more easily without distorting

Question 7

Adson Forceps

Answer 7

• AKA Rat tooth forceps
• thumb forceps with interdigitating teeth
• should not be used on delicate tissue
• Designed to hold dense tissue

Question 8

Brown Adson Forceps

Answer 8

• thumb forceps with a wide flat platform that end in 9x9 rows of teeth
• Used for holding and manipulating tissue

Question 9

What is this?

Answer 9

• Mosquito Clamp
• Can be straight or curved
• horizontal serrations down the entire jaws, and size
• Clamp blood vessels and tissues

Question 10

What is this

Answer 10

• Kelly Clamp
• Can be straight or curved
• horizontal serrations over front half of the jaws
• Clamp blood vessels and tissues
• Basically large mosquito clamps

Question 11

What is this

Answer 11

• Crile Clamp
• Can be straight or curved
• horizontal serrations over the entire lengths of the jaw
• Clamp blood vessels and tissues

Question 12

What is this?

Answer 12

• Carmalt Clamp
• Can be straight or curved
• Longitudinal serrations with cross serrations at the tip.
• occlude large pedicles

Question 13

What is this

Answer 13

• Allis Clamps
• Crushing
• Arms end in sharp teeth
• used to grasp tissues that are going to be removed

Question 14

What is this?

Answer 14

• Doyen Clamps
• Atraumatic clamps
• Grasp onto large organs without damage.
• Curved arms and longitudinal serations

Question 15

What is this instrument? Purpose? Identifying features?

Answer 15

• Backhaus Clamp
• Secures quadrant drapes to the patient
  
  • Clamp through the drape into the dermis of the patient
• They have the curved, smooth jaws ending in sharp points

Question 16

What is this?

Answer 16

• Loran/Edna Clamps
• Non-perforating clamp
• Secure Top Field drape to either the quadrant drapes or the shaft of the backhuas clamps
• Never should be clamped onto tissue
• Has curved arms that meet at the end at small flat plates

Question 17

What is this?

Answer 17

• Balfour Retractor
• Self-retaining retractor for holding abdominal incisions open during surgery
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Question 18

What is this?

Answer 18

• Senn Retractor
• ID: Alternate facing ends - one mini Army/Navy type and the other a curved fork end (blunt or sharp)
• For retraction of shallow surgical sites such as limbs

Question 19

What is this?

Answer 19

• Army/Navy Retractor
• Requires an assistant surgeon
• Can be used as a single or pair
• retract abdominal wall
• ID: 90 degree bend

Question 20

What is this?

Answer 20

• Parker Retractor
• Requires an assistant surgeon
• Can be used singly or in pairs
• Retraction of wall less deep
• ID: Rounded shape like th letter P