Surgical Instruments Flashcards
What sizes are these?
A - No4
B - No3
What blades will these accept?
A 20, 21, 22, 23
B 10,11,12,15
Why do you need different sized scalpel handles?
Handle A is more commonly used in large animal practice to accept larger blade sizes.
Handle B is generally used for small animal general surgery.
Other handles are available for different situations like ophthalmology.
Name and use
Littauer scissors
Used for removal of tight or awkward sutures
Name and use
Metzenbaum scissors
Good for fine dissection of tissues and more delicate work. Not for cutting suture material.
How would these be held?
Held in the Tripod grip.
Thumb in one ring and third or ring finger in the other ring.
1st and 2nd finger are used to stabilise the instrument along the blade.
Name and use
Mayo scissors
It is used for cutting heavy or tough tissue, such as fascia.
How would these be held
Held in the tripod grip.
Thumb in one ring and third or ring finger in the other ring.
1st and 2nd finger are used to stabilise the instrument along the blade.
name and use
dressing scissors
Used for cutting dressing material and general work.
Also used for cutting suture material during surgery.
How would these be held?
Held in the tripod grip.
Thumb in one ring and third or ring finger in the other ring.
1st and 2nd finger are used to stabilise the instrument along the blade.
Name the artery forceps/haemostats
A Mosquito
B Spencer Wells
C Rochester Pean
Name the bowel clamp
Doyen bowel clamp
which is the artery forceps and which is the bowel clamp and why?
Why are the ends different?
1 Artery forceps (serrated appearance is transverse on the blade)
2 Bowel clamp (serrated appearance runs lengthways along the clamp)
The bowel clamps striations are less traumatic and thought to be more secure in sealing the bowel during surgery.
Name and use
Spay forceps
Elevating the uterine horn in a cat spay. Most forceps have a plain grip, but these have a
Debakey grip which is a secure grip less traumatic than rat toothed forceps.
Good for surgery of ear, bowel or urogenital tract.
Name and use
Block ended serrated dressing forceps
Cheap dressing forceps, minimal use during surgery
Name, varieties and uses
Adson tissue forceps
Rat toothed - gives more grip when needed but can be traumatic, not for use with visceral organs.
Serrated end - has less grip but little trauma to tissue good for fine tissue handling.
Name and use
Treves tissue forceps
General purpose rat toothed forceps.
Used in general surgery.
Traumatic to tissues.
Name and use
Allis tissue forceps
Use for grasping and retracting more tough connective tissue for example the linea alba. They can be traumatic so not to be used on skin
name and use
Babcock forceps
For use in grasping more delicate viscera and retracting.
Less traumatic than Allis tissue forceps.
name and use
Gosset retractors
Rib/laparotomy retractor
name and use
Hohman retractors
Retraction of bones/bone fragments during fracture repair
name and use
Gelpi retractors
Joint surgery and spinal surgery
name and use
Travers retractors
retraction of skin and superficial soft tissue
name and use
senn retractors
fat pad retraction in medial meniscus repair
