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Surgical Instruments/Suture Materials/Needles Flashcards

1
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Intermeshing teeth that secure a grip
Can cause trauma to delicate tissues
For retracting incisions

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Allis tissue forceps

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Similar to allis tissues but with no gripping teeth
Used on delicate tissue

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Babcock intestinal forceps

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Forceps
Gap in the middle to avoid crushing
Used to hold bowel

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Doyen intestinal forceps

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4
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Used to secure drapes/towels to patient skin

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Backhaus towel forceps

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Towel forceps
Similar to backhaus but have metal beads on each tip

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Roeder towel forceps

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6
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Looks like tweezers but is a towel clamp

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Jones towel forceps

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7
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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

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Sponge forceps

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8
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Forceps
Straight or curved
Used for ligating vessels and tissues (clamp and stop bleeding)

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Hemostatic forceps (hemostats)

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9
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Used for cat neuters
Control capillary bleeders
Transverse serrations

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Halstead mosquito forceps
“Mosquitoes”

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10
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Similar to mosquitoes, but larger
Used for feline spays
Used to grasp intermediate sized vessels
Have transferred grooves

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Crile forceps

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Same as crile forceps but only has half grooves (distal portion)
Used to grasp intermediate sized vessels
Straight or curved

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Kelly forceps

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12
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Clamps large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels
More “blood blocking”
Longitudinal grooves and distal transverse grooves
Straight or curved
K9 spay

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Rochester-carmalt forceps
“Carmalt”

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13
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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

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Rochester-pean forceps
“Pean”

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14
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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

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Rochester ochsner forceps
“Ochsner”

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15
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Assist in holding large bundles of tissue and severe bleeders
Most crushing and most hemostasis
“It’s a bad day when they come out”

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Ferguson angiotribe forceps
“Angiotribe”

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16
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“Rat tooth” forceps
Held in a pencil grip to hold tissue
Used to grasp skin and place sutures
Stabilize things

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Thumb forceps (tissue forceps)

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17
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Multiple fine intermeshing teeth on the edges of the tips
Used for handling delicate tissue
2 words = more teeth “alligator teeth”

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Brown-adson tissue forceps

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18
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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

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Adson tissue forceps

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19
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Used to pick through gauze
Have serrations but no teeth on the jaws
Standard jaws

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Standard dressing forceps

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20
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Tissue forceps
Rounded tips
Used for holding hollow viscera (internal organs enclosed within a cavity)

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Russian tissue forceps

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21
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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

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Standard surgical scissor

22
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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

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Mayo scissors

23
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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

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Metzenbaum scissor

24
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Used to cut bandage without puncturing patients skin one blade has a flat and thick edge with a blunt tip

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Lister bandage scissor

25
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Small, sharp, delicate scissors
Commonly used for intraocular surgery

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Iris scissor

26
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Scissors
Used during orthopedic surgery
Short, thick jaws with serrated edges
For cutting wire suture material

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Wire cutting scissor

27
Q

Blunt tips with one blade terminated into a thin curved hook
Spencer scissors are smaller than littauer scissors

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Suture scissors

28
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Used to take the scalpel off and on the handle
Used only as a needle holder, no scissors
Crisscross grooves to assist grasping the needle
2 words

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Mayo-Hegar

29
Q

Crisscross grooves to helps hold the needle
Combined with scissors to cut sutures without using a separate scissor
THE TWINS

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Olsen-Hagar
“Has 2 parts = Olsen twins”

30
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What scalpel handle do you use on skin with a 20 blade?

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4

31
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What scalpel handle is used for internal surgery with a size 10 blade?

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3

32
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What is a 10 blade used for?

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Incising skin

33
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What is an 11 blade used for?

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Sever ligaments

34
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What is a 12 blade used for?

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Lance abscesses

35
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What is a 15 blade used for?

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Precise, small, or curved incisions

36
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Needle that is held by hand

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Straight

37
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What is a 1/4 curved needle used on/for?

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Used on easily accessible convex surfaces
ie. ophthalmic

38
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Needle points :
Traumatic to tissue
Good at cutting through skin, cartilage, and tendons
Can be reverse, conventional, or side cutting

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Cutting needle point

39
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Needle point :
Non cutting
Can be taper or blunt
Atraumatic (very gentle on the skin)
Used for delicate tissue (bladder, intestinal wall)

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Tapered

40
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Needle point :
Non cutting
Can be taper or blunt
Atraumatic (very gentle on the skin)
Used for delicate tissue (bladder, intestinal wall)

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Tapered

41
Q

Suture material :
Cheap but may not guarantee sterility
Without needle

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Cassettes

42
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Suture material :
Expensive
Usually swaged with a needle
Label information

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Individually packed

43
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Suture material :
Not commonly seen in Canada

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Packaged in alcohol

44
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Suture material :
No needle
Can be re-sterilized with gas or steam

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Spools

45
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What suture material are spools only available in?

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Nylon
Stainless steel
Silk

46
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Non absorbable suture material

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Silk (natural)
Cotton/linen (natural)
Stainless steel (natural)
Prolene (synthetic)
Nylon (synthetic)

47
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Prolene suture material characteristics

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Expensive
Strong
Only comes in packages
Non-absorbable
Synthetic

48
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Nylon suture material characteristics

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Cheap
Very strong
Comes in cassettes or packages
May get stitch granules
Non-absorbable
Synthetic

49
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Absorbable suture material :

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Catgut (natural)
Dexon (synthetic)
Vicryl (synthetic)
PDS (synthetic)
Monocryl (synthetic)

50
Q

Define : rupturing alveoli in the lungs due to too much trauma

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Baro trauma

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