Surgical Instruments

Question 1

What are the different clamps avilable in surgery? 9

Answer 1

1. Needle drivers
2. Hemostat
3. Kelley/Pean
4. Tonsil
5. Babcock
6. Allis
7. Kocher
8. Right angles
9. Sponge stick

Question 2

What are these and what are they used for?

Answer 2

1. Needle driver
2. to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures
   - Use: holding heavy “large” suture needles

Question 3

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 3

1. Kelly/Pean
2. USed to clamp larger vessels and tissues

Question 4

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 4

1. Hemostats
2. an instrument for preventing the flow of blood from an open blood vessel by compression of the vessel.

Question 5

What are these and what are they used for?

Answer 5

1. Tonsil clamp
2. Commonly used to pass ties for abdominal surgery or for creating the passage for a drain during closure.

Question 6

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 6

1. Babcock
2. For grasping soft tissue or bowel

Question 7

What are these and what are they used for?

Answer 7

1. Allis
2. Use - Grasping
   Additional Info - Often used for grasping soft tissue such as breast tissue or bowel tissue

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Question 8

What are these and what are they used for?

Answer 8

1. Kocher
2. Use - Grasping
   Additional Info - Used to grasp bone or fascia.

Question 9

What are the following and what are they used for

Answer 9

1. Right angle
2. Use: clamping tissue or grasping ligature around a curve [e.g., a pedicle or blood vessel

Question 10

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 10

1. Sponge stick
2. Use: grasping tissue; holding Raytec sponge

Question 11

What are the types of surgical scissors?

3

Answer 11

1. Metzenbaum
2. Cooley
3. Mayo
   - Straight
   - curved

Question 12

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 12

1. Metzenbaum
2. use: cutting or dissecting heavy tissue

Question 13

What is the following and what is it used for?

Answer 13

1. Cooley
2. Soft tissue/Cardiovascular surgery

Question 14

What are the following and what are they used for?

Answer 14

1. Mayo straight and curved scissors
2. function:
   - used for performing blunt dissection or cutting throguh bulky connective tissues

blades maybe straight or curved

Question 15

What are the handheld retractors?

4

Self retaining retractors?

3

Answer 15

1. Handheld
   - Richardsons
   - Deavers
   - Malleable
   - Army-Navy
2. Self-retaining
   - Weitlaner
   - Gelpi
   - Large abdominal retractors

Question 16

What are the following?

Answer 16

1. Handheld retractors

Question 17

What are the following?

Question 18

What are the types of surgical forceps?

5

Answer 18

1. Debakey
2. Adson
3. Rat tooth
4. Russian
5. Ferris Smith

Question 19

What are the different types of suction tips? 2

Answer 19

1. Yankauer
   - Plastic
   - metal
2. Poole

Question 20

What is this?

Answer 20

Clip applier

Question 21

What are these?

Question 22

What are the following names of these needles?

Answer 22

Question 23

What is the following needle name for the following shapes?

Answer 23