CUTTING INSTRUMENTS

KNIFE/SCALPEL HOLDER SUTURE/STITCH SCISSORS MAYO BANDAGE SCISSORS METZENBAUM

Use for anatomical Designed for easy removal Used for cutting sutures To size bandages and Use for cutting delicate
dissection of sutures dressings. tissues.
To cut through medical
gauze.
To cut through bandages
already in place.

K/SH, S/SS, M, B, M
 TISSUE FORCEPS

FORCEPS WITHOUT TEETH: TISSUE FORCEPS WITH TEETH: RUSSIAN TISSUE FORCEP DeBakey TISSUE FORCEP ADSON TISSUE FORCEP
LONG AND RETISSUE GULAR LONG AND GULAR
Non-toothed forceps used Used for grasping moderate to Use to grasp dense tissue. To grasp tissue in vascular Hold and manipulate tissues
for fine handling of tissue heavy tissue and used during procedures. (grasp)
and traction during wound closure.
dissection.

WOT, WT, R,D,A

 GRASPING INSTRUMENTS

BABCOCK ALLIS KOCHER (OCHSNER) FOERSTER (OVUM)

Use to grasp delicate tissue Use to hold or grasp heavy Used for grasping tough, fibrous, Used for creating a sponge stick, for
tissue slippery tissues such as muscle and grasping tissues such as the lungs, or for
fascia. removing uterine contents.

BACKHAUS TOWEL CLAMP RANDALL STONE FORCEPS TENACULUM

Use for grasping tissue, securing towels or Use for grasping and removing kidney stone, Used to hold or pick up small pieces of tissue
drapes and holding or reducing small bones gallstone and polyps such as the ends of arteries.
fracture

BC, A, K, F, BH, R, T
 CLAMPING INSTRUMENTS

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CURVED MOSQUITO STRAIGHT MOSQUITO KELLY CLAMP

Allow easier placement of ligatures around To hold delicate tissue and use in most Used to occlude bleeding before ligation
the forceps and also use in surgery for surgical procedure (stops bleeding before closing off a blood
temporary occlusion of a vessel. vessel)

CRILE FORCEPS MIXTER/RIGHT-ANGLED FORCEPS PEAN

Use for clamping blood vessels or tissue Use for clamping, dissection or grasping Used for clamping large tissue and vessels
before cauterization or ligation tissue

CV, SM, K.C, R/M, P

 RETRACTORS

SENN VOLKMANN ARMY NAVY DEAVER

Used for exposing superficial Retractor commonly used in Use to retract incisions that are Used for deep wound retraction
wound. small bone and joint procedures small or shallow or layer of skin

S, V, AN, D
 MALLEABLE RICHARDSON WEITLANER VEIN RETRACTOR
Used for deep wound Use for holding back Self-retaining; sharp or dull; used for Popular retractor used during
retraction multiple layers of deep exposing superficial wound neurosurgery as rib spreaders.
tissue

M, R, W, VR
 SKIN HOOKS LANGENBECK GREEN GOITER/ a.k.a. goiter BALFOUR WITH SELF RETAINING
retractor; loop retractor RETRACTOR
Used to retract the soft tissues Widely used for manual Used for retracting soft tissue. Are surgical instruments that are
superficial retraction used to hold an incision or
(skin/subcutaneous tissue) wound open during surgical
purposes. Maybe used to split procedures. Used in abdominal
the muscle during gaining entry surgery to hold open the
into the abdomen in the right abdominal.
iliac fossa during an
appendectomy.

SH, L, GG, BSR

 KNIFE HANDLE & BLADE

NO. 3 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 7 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 4 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 10 BLADE
Knife handles are used to hold Used when precision cutting is Has a larger tip to accommodate Used for making skin incisions
various blades to create a scalpel. needed in a confined space or a the larger blades
deep wound
 NO. 11 BLADE NO. 12 BLADE NO. 15 BLADE NO. 20 BLADE
A no. 12 blade is sometimes used Used with the no. 4 handle to
Used for puncturing the skin or
during tonsillectomies, parotid Used for creating small precise create a larger and/or deeper
to initiate the opening of an
surgeries, septoplasties, and cleft incisions. incision and on heavy tissues and
artery
palate procedures. bone.