surgical instruments Flashcards
Halstead mosquito forceps
-used to control/ occlude capillary bleeding
Kelly hemostats
kelly doesn’t go all the way
- occlude/control intermediate sized vessels
crile hemostats
- occlude/control intermediate sized vessels
Rochester carmalt
-occlude/ crush large vessels or tissue bundles
Rochester Pean
- occlude/ control large sized vessels
Rochester Oschner
- additional security when grasping tissue, avoid slipping
operating scissors
- cut paper drapes or sutures, do not use on the patient
Mayo scissors
- obvious notch thing
- cutting a dissecting tissue, cutting surgical drapes and other sterile things in surgery
metzenbaum scissors
- fine cutting and dissecting delicate tissue
Iris scissors
- like eyelash scissors
- intraocular surgery or any other small delicate procedures
Littauer suture scissors
-used to remove sutures
Lister scissors
- safe removal of bandage
Whites scissors
- dewclaw, ingrown nail
rat tooth tissue forceps
- to grasp skin
Adson tissue forceps
- grasp delicate tissue
Brown adson tissue forceps
- firmer grasp and more control over finer tissue
Dressing forceps
- handling gauze or other sterile dressing material
Allis tissue forceps
-provide secure grip on tissue
Sponge forceps
- handle sterile gauze or other bandage or draping material
Backhaus towel clamps
- clamp sterile drape to patient
- more traumatic because they often puncture the skin
Jones towel clamp
- more delicate
Roeder towel clamps
- the balls prevent the jaw from penetrating too deep into the tissue
Mayo Hegar needle holder
- used to throw suture
Olsen Hegar needle holder
- used to throw sutures
- has scissors to cut sutures
