Surgical Instruments/Suture Materials/Needles Flashcards
Intermeshing teeth that secure a grip
Can cause trauma to delicate tissues
For retracting incisions
Allis tissue forceps
Similar to allis tissues but with no gripping teeth
Used on delicate tissue
Babcock intestinal forceps
Forceps
Gap in the middle to avoid crushing
Used to hold bowel
Doyen intestinal forceps
Used to secure drapes/towels to patient skin
Backhaus towel forceps
Towel forceps
Similar to backhaus but have metal beads on each tip
Roeder towel forceps
Looks like tweezers but is a towel clamp
Jones towel forceps
Have a hole in the center of the circular tips
Used to hold gauze to provide hemostasis during surgery or when performing patient preparation
“Check gutters” - lateral and dorsal walls checking for blood
Sponge forceps
Forceps
Straight or curved
Used for ligating vessels and tissues (clamp and stop bleeding)
Hemostatic forceps (hemostats)
Used for cat neuters
Control capillary bleeders
Transverse serrations
Halstead mosquito forceps
“Mosquitoes”
Similar to mosquitoes, but larger
Used for feline spays
Used to grasp intermediate sized vessels
Have transferred grooves
Crile forceps
Same as crile forceps but only has half grooves (distal portion)
Used to grasp intermediate sized vessels
Straight or curved
Kelly forceps
Clamps large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels
More “blood blocking”
Longitudinal grooves and distal transverse grooves
Straight or curved
K9 spay
Rochester-carmalt forceps
“Carmalt”
Clamps large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels
Have transverse grooves only
Straight or curved
Used for c-sections, internal large animal procedures, and gastropexies
Rochester-pean forceps
“Pean”
Similar to pean or crile, but instead have 1:2 teeth at the tips
To get a better grip on larger tissue bundles
Straight or curved
Used for declaws
Rochester ochsner forceps
“Ochsner”
Assist in holding large bundles of tissue and severe bleeders
Most crushing and most hemostasis
“It’s a bad day when they come out”
Ferguson angiotribe forceps
“Angiotribe”
“Rat tooth” forceps
Held in a pencil grip to hold tissue
Used to grasp skin and place sutures
Stabilize things
Thumb forceps (tissue forceps)
Multiple fine intermeshing teeth on the edges of the tips
Used for handling delicate tissue
2 words = more teeth “alligator teeth”
Brown-adson tissue forceps
Provide good tissue grip with minimal damage to tissue due to very fine “rat tooth” tips
Used on delicate tissue
Fine teeth for minimal tissue trauma
Nicer for small animals
Adson tissue forceps
Used to pick through gauze
Have serrations but no teeth on the jaws
Standard jaws
Standard dressing forceps
Tissue forceps
Rounded tips
Used for holding hollow viscera (internal organs enclosed within a cavity)
Russian tissue forceps
Sharp-blunt
Blunt-blunt
Sharp-sharp
Straight or curved
Blades are the same size at the legs
Not used on tissue, only suture, drape materials, or other inanimate objects
Standard surgical scissor
Work well for cutting and dissecting dense connective tissue
Tips are blunt-blunt
Straight or curved
Used to cut away fascia from skin
Blades are shorter than legs
Mayo scissors
Fine tips and long handles
For cutting and dissecting more delicate tissue
Blunt-blunt or sharp-sharp (mostly sharp)
Curved or straight
Allows for finer detail than mayos
Metzenbaum scissor
Used to cut bandage without puncturing patients skin one blade has a flat and thick edge with a blunt tip
Lister bandage scissor
