Surgical Instruments Flashcards
What are these?
Operating Scissors
Function: Used to cut suture material or other inanimate objects.
What are these?
Mayo Surgical Scissors
Functions:
Used to cut thicker connective tissue…tendons, ligaments, muscles.
Characteristics: These scissors have more mass than Metzenbaum scissors
What are these?
Metzenbaum Scissors
Function:
Used to cut fine delicate soft tissue.
What are these?
Halstead Mosquito Hemostatic Forceps
Function: To clamp or occlude small capillaries or vessels that have been cut or about to be cut. “small bleeders”.
Characteristics: small jaws with fine horizontal serrations. Halstead’s are about 5 1/2 inches long.
What are these?
Allis Tissue Forceps
Functions: Used to hold or grasp heavy connective tissue. Used to grasp fascia and soft tissues. “praying hands”.
What are these?
Weitlaner Self-Retaining Retractors
Functions: Used with small, deep incisions, soft tissue dissection, herniotomy, femoropopliteal bypass, bone and joint procedure.
What are these?
Gelpi Self-Retaining Retractors
Functions: Used to maintain wound exposure during orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery.
What are these?
Senn Rake Hand-Held Retractors
Function: Used to hold open a wound or incision so that the surgeon can view the underlying tissues. “looks like a back scratcher”.
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Yankauer Suction Tip
Function: Used to suction medium amounts of fluid out of a surgical field.
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Frazier Suction Tip
Function: Used to suction smaller amounts of fluid out of a surgical field.
What are these?
Snook Hook aka Spay Hook
Function: Used to retrieve a uterine horn from within a small animal. The instrument allows the surgeon to make an incision smaller than the one that is needed.
What are these?
Army-Navy Retractors
Function: ideal for getting into and exposing large muscles and is most often used in orthopedic and general surgery.
What are these?
Kelly Hemostatic Forceps
Function: Used to occlude small to medium sized vessels.
Characteristics: Only has horizontal serrations on the top half of the jaws.
What are these?
Rochester-Pean Hemostatic Forceps
Function: To occlude/clamp large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels.
Characteristics: “Big Hemostat” 10 1/4 inches. Straight or curved…fully serrated jaws.
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Rochester Carmalt Hemostatic Forceps
Function: Used to clamp/occlude large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels.
What are these?
Alligator Forceps
Function: To reach deep into an animals body to retrieve a foreign object.
Characteristics: Long narrow shaft that ends in tiny grasping jaws.
What are these?
Alligator Forceps
Function: To reach deep into an animals body to retrieve a foreign object.
Characteristics: Long narrow shaft that ends in tiny grasping jaws.
What is this?
Poole Suction Tip
Function: Used to suction large amounts of fluid out of a surgical field.
What is this?
Brown Adson Thumb Forceps
Function: Used to pick up, hold, and maneuver delicate tissue. “toothbrush”.
Characteristics: Nine teeth on each tine.
What is this?
Dressing Thumb Forceps
Function: To grasp inanimate objects such as dressings or other nonviable tissues. Traumatic
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Balfour Self-Retaining Retractor
Function: Used to hold the abdominal wall open for performance in surgical procedures.
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Crile Hemostatic Forceps
Function: Used to clamp moderate to medium size blood vessels.
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Rat Tooth Thumb Forceps
Function: Used to grasp the skin and other dense tissues to place sutures. Looks like a “rat tooth”.
What is this?
Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder
Function: Used to drive suture needles through tissue as well as to cut sutures.
What is this?
Mayo-Hegar needle holder
Function: Used to drive suture needles through tissue.
What is this?
Doyen’s Intestinal Forceps
Function: Used to grasp large organs such as intestines or lungs.
Characteristics: Longitudinal serrations.
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Wire Cutters
Function: Used to cut stainless steel wire, which is commonly used in orthopedic surgery.
Characteristics: Short, compact serrated blades.
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Gigli Wire
Function: Used to cut through thick or heavy bone or horn.
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Lister Bandage Scissors
Function: Used to remove bandaging and other dressings.
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Littauer Suture Removal Scissors
Function: Used to remove sutures from incisions.
What is this?
Staple Remover
Function: Used to remove skin staples.
