Sx Procedures & Equipment Flashcards
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Halstead mosquito forceps
Ta_ll_er than Hartman (bigger)
HAS GROOVES ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH
Clamp small vessels (occlude/crush/hold firmly in place)
Usually smaller than Kelly
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Hartman mosquito forceps
Clamp or occlude small capillaries that have been cut or are about to be cut.
Has grooves along the entire length
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Crile forceps
Occlude small vessels like small uterine horns, or small to medium vessels.
Has grooves along the entire length
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Kelly forceps
Occlude small to medium sized vessels
ONLY HAS TRANSVERSE GROOVES ON DISTAL HALF
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Rochester carmalt forceps
A _c_ombination of transverse and longitudinal
Clamp large tissue bundles that contain blood vessels.
Occlude blood flow when perpendicular to vessel.
Has longitudinal and transverse grooves at the distal tip.
Often found in spay packs, crush ovarian pedicles or uterus
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Rochester-Pean Forceps
Clamp blood vessels or control large tissue bundles.
Only has transverse grooves along the entire length
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Ferguson Angiotribe Forceps
Crush powerfully and create a fold in tissues.
Common in spay packs, can be applied to uterine horns and spermatic cord
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Allis tissue forceps
Hold with maximal power, causes tissue trauma.
Only the tips come into contact and interlock.
Not good on friable tissue
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Adson tissue forceps
Pick up, hold and maneuver delicate tissue.
Doesn’t have a lot of surface area, just the tip grabs it
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Brown-Adson tissue forceps
Pick up, hold and maneuver delicate tissue.
Has alligator teeth, more teeth and larger surface area than Adson.
Used to suture skin, muscle layer, fascia.
Used in spays/neuters a lot
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Tissue forceps (rat-tooth)
Grasp skin and other dense tissues so as to place sutures.
Can cause extensive damage to delicate tissues.
Has teeth at the end, more so than Addison. The teeth interdigitate
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Babcock intestinal forceps
Grasp delicate tissue, such as intestines or uterus, without crushing or traumatizing it.
Has no teeth
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Doyen intestinal forceps
Used to occlude and hold intestine.
Really long and thin, space even when closed, used a lot in foreign body procedures.
Has longitudinal grooves along the length
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Backhaus towel forceps
Secure the drapes to a patient’s skin by creating a small puncture
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Roeder towel clamp
Roller
Used for fixing drapes into skin of patient.
Has two balls on the end to prevent it from going too deep into the tissue
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Jones towel forceps
Used to secure towels and surgical draping during procedure.
Have to force them open, more commonly used in delicate tissues, such as ophthalmology
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Lorna towel clamp
Secure drapes to a patient or items to a surgical field *without puncturing the skin or instruments. Can be used for delicate wires, attach suction tubes to drapes*
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Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder
Drive suture thru tissue that needs it, also helps in tying and cutting sutures. Tip has criss cross, more texture, good SA to grab needle. Has scissor blade behind jaw
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Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder
Same as Olsen-Hegar, just no scissor blade. Used to drive suture thru tissue and helps in tying
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Mayo Scissors
Used in blunt dissection, and used to cut thru bulky connective tissue
Mayo makes you fat
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Metzenbaum Scissors
Blunt dissection, cut thru soft tissue
Really long and thin, very delicate blades (not for cutting sutures)
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Lister Bandage Scissors
Remove bandages and other dressings. One blade ends in blunt triangle designed to push skin out of the way and avoid cutting the skin
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Spencer Delicate Suture Scissors
Remove suture from an incision line. One tine ends in a sharp curve, designed to slip under the suture tie
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Littauer Suture Scissors
Same as Spencer, but with thicker blades. Choice depends on what type of suture you’re trying to remove
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Senn Rake Retractor
Hold open wound or incision so surgeon can visualize underlying tissues. Hand-held
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Army-Navy Retractor (or U.S. Army Retractor)
Hand-held, used to hold open wound or incision so surgeon can visualize tissues. Not great, both sides are blunt
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Weitlaner Retractor (there’s no D!)
used to maintain muscle retraction during orthopedic sx. Self-retaining. Some use in neuro
There’s a W at the end of one of the blades :-)
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Gelpi Retractor
Maintain wound exposure during orthopedic and neuro sx. Self-retaining
Kind of looks like bull horns? A G shape?
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Balfour Retractor
Holds abdominal wall open during sx. Self-retaining
Looks like a medieval torture device. Or some kind of sex saddle
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Bone curette
Like a melon baller
Used to scrape out cancellous bone from the medullary cavity so as to perform bone grafts or to scrape osteochondrosis dessicans (OCD) lesions
Common in fx repairs
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Periosteal Elevator
Used to pry periosteum (bone covering) or muscle from the bone surface.
Bladelike structure at one or both ends, with either sharp or blunt edges
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Ruskin Rongeur
Used to remove or break up small chunks of bone, cartilage, or fibrous tissue.
- both sides of the tip are hollow, can grab tissue*
- double action: add’l joint, smoother cutting action, but larger*
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The Bone Mallet:
- set pins
- strike osteotomes or any other matter that requires pounding during surgery.
The Osteotome is used to cut through or to shape bone.
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Yankauer Suction Tip
Suction fluid out of sx fields. Rougher suctioning, good 4 esophagus and large volumes
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Frazier Suction Tip
Suction fluid out of sx field. Good for orthopedic sx and delicate areas
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Poole Suction Tip
Primarily used in thorax or abdomen because it has an outer sleeve with small holes to prevent suctioning things you don’t want to get suctioned
Pool filter?
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Snook’s OHE Hook
Fish out and exteriorize uterine horn thru smaller incision in a small animal
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Trephine
Shaped like a T!
Perform bx or drill small holes into skull or sinus
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Mayo Stand
Kidney Dish (or Suction Bowl)
