Surgical Instruments Flashcards
What instrument?
* Elongated triangular tip
* For precise cutting, sharp angle cutting, or stab incisions (tubes, drains, portals)
11 Surgical blade
What instrument?
* Smaller version of #10
* provides short, precise incisions for small skin lesions, organ biopsies, fine neurological procedures
15 Surgical Blade
What instrument?
* Large curved cutting body
* Larger version of #10
* For large incisions through thicker tissues or when tissues are most resistant to cutting
20 Surgical Blade
What instrument?
* Pointed crescent tip
* Used in large animals for suture removal or in small animals for disarticulating small joints
12 Surgical Blade
What instrument?
* Finely intermeshing teeth at tips
* Fairly atraumatic with appropriate force
* Stabilize soft tissues and suture needles
Brown-Adson Thumb Forceps
What instrument?
* Transverse serrations along jaws with large teeth at tips to prevent tissue slippage
* Traumatic
* Multi-purpose but not commonly used
* Used in large aninmal castration or in orthopedic surgery to manipulate bony fragments
Rochester-Ochsner Hemostatic Forceps
What instrument?
* Pen-like handle
* Longer and thinner than #3 and 4
* For surgical blades #10, 11, 12, 15
7 Scalpel Handle
What instrument?
* Notched in one blade to allow suture loop to be easily hooked
* Prevent excessive lifting of tissue
* Cut skin sutures
Suture Removal Scissors
What instrument?
* Interlocking teeth at tips (number varies)
* Thumb grasp area and neck have similar width
* Their heft can exert a lot of pressure on tissue
* Traumatic
* Grasp tough, fibrous, slippery tissues such as skin, fascia, or muscle
Rat-Tooth Thumb Forceps
What instrument?
* Cross striations along jaws for grip
* Grasps and manipulates suture needle
Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder
What instrument?
* Cross striations along jaws for grip
* Contains scissor blades at base of jaws
* Grasps and manipulates suture needle AND cuts sutures
* More efficient than Mayo-Hegar but increases risk of cutting sutures accidentally
Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder
What instrument?
* Larger flat handle than #3
* For surgical blade #20
4 Scalpel Handle
What Instrument?
* Transverse serrations along distal half of jaws only
* Larger than Halsted mosquito but same size as Crile
* Occlude larger vessels than Halsted mosquito
* Used for blunt dissection
Kelly Hemostatic Forceps
- 2 blunt points
- Used for cutting suture ends during procedures
Blunt/Blunt Suture Scissors
- Longer handle-to-blade ratio than Mayo
- Specialized for cutting delicate tissues
- Used for blunt and sharp dissections
Metzenbaum Scissors
- Flat handle
- For surgical blades #10, 11, 12, 15
3 Scalpel Handle
- Transverse serrations along entire jaws
- Atraumatic
Delicately grasp soft tissues to minimize tissue damage - Used in vascular, intestinal, or bladder surgery
DeBakey Thumb Forceps
- Transverse serrations along entire jaws
- Larger than Halsted mosquito but same size as Kelly
- Less delicate than Halsted mosquito
- Clamp larger vessels or tissues than Halsted mosquito
- Occlude small to medium vessels
- Used for blunt dissection
Crile Hemostatic Forceps
- Penetrating
- Sharp tips
*Secures towels to patient’s skin by penetrating drapes and skin
Backhaus Towel Clamp
- Finer, 2 x 1, interlocking teeth at tips
- Wider thumb grasp area with narrower neck than rat-tooth
- Stabilize soft, slippery tissues such as skin and fascia
Adson Thumb Forceps
- Flat plate lies perpendicular to skin
- Cut bandages or other material taped or adhered to skin
Lister Bandage Scissors
- Transverse serrations along entire jaws
- Smallest hemostatic forceps
- More delicate than Crile or Kelly
- Clamp or crush small vessels
- Not recommended for use in ligation of large vascular pedicles
Halsted Mosquito Hemostatic Forceps
- Non-penetrating
Wide tips with blunted teeth on their grasping surfaces - Secures drapes without penetrating drapes, towels, or skin
Lorna-Edna Towel Clamp
- Shorter handle-to-blade ratio than Metzenbaum
- Stronger than Metzenbaum
- Cut thick tissues such as muscle, connective tissue, and fascia
Mayo Scissors
- 1 sharp point and 1 blunt point
- Used for cutting suture ends during procedures
Sharp/Blunt Suture Scissors
- Longitudinal serrations along jaws with crosshatching tips
- Least traumatic hemostatic forceps
- Provide secure grasp of tissue with minimal risk of cutting or tissue slippage
- Mainly clamp vascular pedicles but also vessels, large tissues, and stumps
Rochester-Carmalt Hemostatic Forceps
- Most common blade
- Curved cutting body
For large incisions through skin, subcutaneous tissues, or other soft tissues
10 Surgical Blade
interdigitating short teeth are slightly traumatic and used to grasp tissue like skin, fascia, and intestine
Allis Tissue forceps
broad, flared ends with smooth tips used for delicate tissue like intestine and bladder
Babcock tissue forceps
to temporarily occlude lumen of bowel. Are non-crushing intestinal occluding and have longitudinal serrations
Doyen tissue forceps
for surgical and wound suction ABDOMEN. It is used to clean debris and liquids from the surgical site. It has multiple holes in the end and is designed to avoid clogging on fat particles.
Poole suction tip
offers ultra-precise suctioning of secretions during surgery-ORTHODPEDICS
Frazier suction tip
the most common suction instrument in the world
for use in BLADDER Sx.
It has a large opening surrounded by a bulbous head, designed to allow effective suction without damaging surrounding tissue. It is used to suction oral secretions in order to prevent aspiration, as well as other bodily fluids
Yankauer suction tip
used for lifting bone or removing periosteum—to remove periosteum and other soft tissues from the surface of bones. They are designed with a blade-like structure at the end of a stout handle. The blade may have sharp or blunt edges and come in various sizes
Periosteal elevator
used for debriding cartilage or bone defects—to scrape the surface of relatively dense tissue to remove loose or degenerate tissue (bone marrow, necrotic bone, cartilage flaps, abscess material). It has a small cup-like structure at the end of a handle. The cup has a very sharp cutting edge and comes in various sizes
Bone curette
used with a mallet to cut through bone—to cut or shape bone and cartilage, it is tapered on both sides to form the cutting edge and is used with a steel or plastic mallet
Osteotome
needed for hand driving pins through bone–the
chuck is the end piece that connects to a handle and is used to place pins in broken bones, the key is used to tighten and untighten the chuck’s hold on the orthopedic pin
Jacob’s chuck and key
used to crush or bite bone when debriding or removing bone—to cut and remove pieces of bones. These instruments come in various types and sizes
Rongeur
larger than Senn with broad, blunt edges on each end for retraction of large amounts of tissue (hand held, used to retract shallow incisions: skin, fat, muscle; used in all surgery types)
Army-Navy Retractor
small, double ended retractors with three small fingerlike projections on one end and a flat, curved blade on the other (hand held—double ended retractor one side is “L” shaped and the other side has 3 bent prongs to use in all surgery types)
Senn retractor
spatula shaped ends,
retract soft tissue away and expose the bony segments
Hohmann retractor
can be bent by the surgeon to conform to the structure
or area of the body being retracted (hand held, metal retractors that can be molded to different shapes to assist in tissue retraction such as abdominal organs, muscle, skin, etc)
Ribbon (malleable) retractor
self-retaining retractors maintain tension on tissue and are held open with a box-lock or another device
Gelpi retractor
self-retaining retractors maintain tension on tissue and are held open with a box-lock or another device (a set screw)-used to retract the abdominal wall
Balfour retractor
self-retaining retractors maintain tension on tissue and are held open with a box-lock or another device—many comb like extensions on ends (self-retaining, used in all types of surgery, best for retraction of shallow incisions. Tips have 3-4 pronged ends)
Weitlander retractor
self-retaining retractors maintain tension on tissue and are held open with a box-lock or another device (a set screw)-used during thoracotamies (self-retaining-used in thoracic surgery to retract ribs to increase space between ribs)
Finochietto retractor
