Surgical instruments Flashcards

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Diff scalpels and blades?

A
  • can be disposable or reusable
  • can have all in one or separate
  • handles:
    number 3 - std and long
    number 7 - longer, skinny
    4 - std and long
    beaver - more precise, fine blade (peds, eye)
  • blades:
    11
    12
    15
    10
    20
    beaver
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Use of clamps?

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  • all usually have diff uses for certain tissue types
  • some are used for hemostasis
  • others are used for resection and dissection
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Diff types of clamps?

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  • needle drivers: fine needle drivers - for vascular surgery
  • hemostat (aka mosquitos)
  • kelley/pean: kelly = smaller, pean = larger ones (clamping umbilical cord)
  • tonsil: finer tipped, longer, curved, used for dissecting, help w/ tying sutures
  • babcock: bowel surgery
  • allis: more traumatic, grabs better than babcock, pull skin edges together
  • kocher: has tooth to grab on to fascia, used in ortho, general surgery, good traction
  • right angles: dissecting tool, good to get around tissue w/
  • sponge stick: used to retract tissue, dab off blood w/ sponge
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Diff types of scissors used?

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  • metzenbaum: finer end than mayo, dissecting out tissue
  • cooley - longer than mayo, used for dissecting tissue
  • mayo:
    straight - for suture
    curved - cutting thick tissue (hysterectomy)
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Diff retractors used?

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handheld:

  • richardsons
  • deavers: abdominal surgeries
  • malleable: bendable
  • army-navy: superficial, hernia repair
  • sweetheart retractor: longer than deavers

self-retaining:

  • weitlaner
  • gelpi
  • large abdominal retractors
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Diff types of forceps used?

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  • Debakey: non-traumatic to tissue (for fine tissue)
  • adson: sewing skin
  • rat tooth: skin, fascia, not to grab tissue, larger than addison
  • russion: flat on end, pick up thick tissue, take out nodes
  • Ferris smith: closing sutures - fascia
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Sunction tips used?

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Yankauer:

  • plastic
  • metal

poole: irrigate abdomen, doesn’t suck up bowel

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