Surgical Instruments Flashcards
What are the different clamps avilable in surgery? 9
- Needle drivers
- Hemostat
- Kelley/Pean
- Tonsil
- Babcock
- Allis
- Kocher
- Right angles
- Sponge stick
What are these and what are they used for?
- Needle driver
- to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures
- Use: holding heavy “large” suture needles
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Kelly/Pean
- USed to clamp larger vessels and tissues
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Hemostats
- an instrument for preventing the flow of blood from an open blood vessel by compression of the vessel.
What are these and what are they used for?
- Tonsil clamp
- Commonly used to pass ties for abdominal surgery or for creating the passage for a drain during closure.
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Babcock
- For grasping soft tissue or bowel
What are these and what are they used for?
- Allis
- Use - Grasping
Additional Info - Often used for grasping soft tissue such as breast tissue or bowel tissue
What are these and what are they used for?
- Kocher
- Use - Grasping
Additional Info - Used to grasp bone or fascia.
What are the following and what are they used for
- Right angle
- Use: clamping tissue or grasping ligature around a curve [e.g., a pedicle or blood vessel
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Sponge stick
- Use: grasping tissue; holding Raytec sponge
What are the types of surgical scissors?
3
- Metzenbaum
- Cooley
- Mayo
- Straight
- curved
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Metzenbaum
- use: cutting or dissecting heavy tissue
What is the following and what is it used for?
- Cooley
- Soft tissue/Cardiovascular surgery
What are the following and what are they used for?
- Mayo straight and curved scissors
- function:
- used for performing blunt dissection or cutting throguh bulky connective tissues
blades maybe straight or curved
What are the handheld retractors?
4
Self retaining retractors?
3
- Handheld
- Richardsons
- Deavers
- Malleable
- Army-Navy - Self-retaining
- Weitlaner
- Gelpi
- Large abdominal retractors
What are the following?
- Handheld retractors
What are the following?
What are the types of surgical forceps?
5
- Debakey
- Adson
- Rat tooth
- Russian
- Ferris Smith
What are the different types of suction tips? 2
- Yankauer
- Plastic
- metal - Poole
What is this?
Clip applier
What are these?
What are the following names of these needles?
What is the following needle name for the following shapes?
