Surgical Tools Flashcards
Scalpel Handle Sizes and Use
3 - hold 10 blade
Beaver is more precise, fine blade - used for eye or pediatric surgery
Blade Sizes and Use
11 is commonly used for laparoscopic surgery
12 for tonsillectomies - hook blade
15 for laparoscopic incisions, ortho - hand incisions
10 & 20 for abdominal surgery
Hemostats
Straight or curved
Different sizes - mosquitos for small vessels
Used for clamping small tissues and vessels or dissecting superficial things
Kelly/Pean Clamp
Like a hemostat but thicker
Always curved
Kelly’s are smaller, Peans are larger
Circots are largest type - for blunt dissection
Tonsil Clamp
Fine tipped and longer than hemostat
Used for dissecting fine things and suture ties
Curved
Babcock Clamp
Two circles on end
For soft-tissue - Uterine or bowel
Allis
Long flat tooth clamp
More traumatic - will kill tissue
GYN post vaginal repair
Kocher Clamp
Straight and curved types
One tooth on the end
Used for grabbing fascia and retraction - more traumatic
Right Angle Clamp
Dissecting tool around organ/tissue planes
Also used to tie or bridge different tissues
Sponge Stick
Two ovals on end, no curved like Babcock
Used to dab or retract skin
Can be used to retrieve gall/bladder stones
Metzenbaum
Scissors
Very fine, smaller than Mayo
Used for dissecting tissue
Not used to cut sutures
Cooley
Tissue dissecting scissor
Slightly longer than mayo
Can be used to cut sutures
Mayo
Scissor, straight or curved
Straight is typically used to cut out suture
Curved is typically used in GYN - hysterectomies
Retractors
A. Beavers
B. Army-Navy
C. Richardson
D. Malleable
Self-Retaining Retractors
A. Weitlaner - hernia, biopsy
B. Gelpy
E. Omniretractor
Forceps
A. Debakey long and short: nontraumatic, for vessels
B. Rat tooth: skin or fascia - very traumatic
C. Adson: skin, use these to suture
D. Russian: to take out nodes, pick up big bunch of skin
E. Ferris Smith: used to close
