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Surgical Instruments Guide

The document describes various surgical instruments including scissors, forceps, retractors and needle holders. Metzenbaum scissors and Mayo scissors are used to cut delicate and tough tissues respectively. Retractors like Richardson and Balfour are used to maintain exposure during surgery. Forceps can have teeth and are used to grasp tissues, while needle holders assist in suturing thick tissues.

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Surgical Instruments Guide

The document describes various surgical instruments including scissors, forceps, retractors and needle holders. Metzenbaum scissors and Mayo scissors are used to cut delicate and tough tissues respectively. Retractors like Richardson and Balfour are used to maintain exposure during surgery. Forceps can have teeth and are used to grasp tissues, while needle holders assist in suturing thick tissues.

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Metzenbaum Scissors - commonly used tissue scissor, used to dissect soft, fine, delicate tissue. Straight OR Curved.

various lengths. Mayo Scissors-Used to cut thick or tough tissuel width of jaws are thicker than metz curved or straight (suture scissors Babcock- grasping/holding non-perforating, atraumatic clamp Oschner/Kocher- traumatic grasping clamp; has tooth at the tip; curved/straight short or long Allis- atraumatic grasping clamp used on delicate tissue has tiny non perforating teeth at end of angular Tissue Forceps with or without teeth- used to graps or pick up tissue when applying dressing

Richardson Retractor- Hand Held Right angled retractor

Balfour with blade- self retaining retractor used to maintain exposure in abdominal surgery; may be used with a bladder blade- Counted items (including NUTS) Backhaus Towel Clip-used to clip towels during draping process or as a grasper of tissue, can be perforating or non perforating Weitlaner-Self-retaining retractor with teeth that angle outward to maintain wound exposure Needleholder- used for heavy, thick needles/tissue. Various lengths, serrated with or without carbide insert

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