surgical instruments

Question 1

What can all types of scissors be?

Answer 1

sharp or blunt

curved or straight

Question 2

What are the two main types of scissors?

Answer 2

Mayo

Metzenbaum

Question 3

What instrument is this?

What is it used for?

Answer 3

Mayo scissors

cutting heavy fascia and sutures

Question 4

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 4

Metzenbaum scissors

cut delicate tissue

Have a longer handle : blade ratio

Question 5

What is the difference between tissue and dressing forceps?

Answer 5

Dressing forceps have smooth or serrated tips

Tissue forceps have teeth

Question 6

What type of instrument is this and what do you use it for?

Answer 6

Rat tooth forceps

Tissue forceps

to hold skin / dense tissue

Question 7

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 7

Adson tissue forceps

for light careful handling of tissues

Question 8

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 8

Allis intestinal forceps

to hold intestine, fascia and skin

slightly traumatic

Question 9

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 9

Babcock intestinal forceps

used to atraumatically hold viscera

Question 10

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 10

Sponge tissue forceps

to atraumatically hold viscera

Question 11

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 11

Mosquito haemostats

Delicate

used to clamp and hold BV

Question 12

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 12

Kelly hemostat

Less delicate

to clamp and hold BV

Question 13

What instrument is this and what is ti used for?

Answer 13

Carmalt hemostats

Used to clamp ovarian pedicels due to longitudinal serrations

Question 14

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 14

Doyen intestinal forceps

non crushing, intestinal occluding forceps with longitudinal serrations

temporary bowel occlusion

Question 15

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 15

Payr pylorus intestinal forceps

crushing intestinal instrument to occlude the part of bowel being removed

Question 16

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 16

Mayo hegar needle holder

no scissors

heavy

Question 17

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 17

Olsen hegar needle holder

needle holder and scissors

be careful as may accidentally cut suture material

Question 18

What instrument is htis and what is it used for?

Answer 18

Senn retractor

handheld

blade at each end

can be blunt (delicate) or sharp (trauma - fascia)

Question 19

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 19

Hohmann hand held retractor

lever tissue away from bone in orthopaedic procedures

Question 20

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 20

Weitlaner self retraining retractor

can be blunt or sharp

has ratchet

rake tips

Question 21

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 21

Gelpi self retaining retractors

single point tips

ratchet to hold tissues apart

Question 22

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 22

Backhaus towel clip

secure drapes to a patients skin

Question 23

What instrument is this?

Answer 23

Army navy handheld retractor

Question 24

What instrument is this?

Answer 24

Poole suction tip

Question 25

What no blade is this?

Answer 25

no 15

Question 26

What instrument is this?

Answer 26

DeBakey thumb forceps for delicate tissue

Question 27

What instrument is this?

Answer 27

no 11 scalpel blade

Question 28

What instrument is this and what is it used for?

Answer 28

Mixter forceps for blunt dissection to isolate neurovascular / other tubular structures

Question 29

3 main types of scissors

Answer 29

mayo metzenbaum suture and ligature

Question 30

what forceps would you use to stabilise and retract tissue?

Answer 30

Allis Babcock

Question 31

What forceps would you use to dissec neurovascular structures?

Answer 31

Mixter Lahey

Question 32

What forceps would you use to occluse hollow organs?

Answer 32

Doyens (int) Rochester - carmalt (uterus)

Question 33

What forceps would you use to occlude vessels and vascular pedicels?

Answer 33

Halstead / mosquito (small) Kelly (medium) Carmalt (large) Kocher (large and rat tooth)

Question 34

What forceps would you use for tangential occlusion of BV after incision?

Answer 34

Cooley Satinsky

Question 35

4 hand held retractors

Answer 35

Senn Langenbeck Army - Navy Malleable

Question 36

5 self retaining retractors

Answer 36

Balfour (abdomen) Gosset Gelpi Weitlane Finochietto (thorax)

Question 37

What are the advantages of swaged on needles?

Answer 37

unlikely to detach fast use less fraying less tissue trauma sterile

Question 38

How can needles be classified?

Answer 38

size (length, diameter) shape (straight, curved, J ,compoud curve)

Question 39

What type of needle is this?

Answer 39

non cutting round bodied

Question 40

What type of needle is this?

Answer 40

taper point non cutting

Question 41

What type of needle is this?

Answer 41

taper cut

Question 42

What type of needle is this?

Answer 42

standard cutting

Question 43

What type of needle is this?

Answer 43

reverse cutting

Question 44

what type of needle is this?

Answer 44

side cutting