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Essential Operating Room Instruments

The document lists common instruments used in operating rooms, including scalpels, scissors, forceps, retractors, and suction devices. It provides examples of different types of scissors, forceps, and retractors and their specific uses. Standard instrument sets for basic, major, and minor surgeries are also outlined, containing surgical towels, sheets, gowns, and various instruments like forceps, needle holders, and retractors.

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Essential Operating Room Instruments

The document lists common instruments used in operating rooms, including scalpels, scissors, forceps, retractors, and suction devices. It provides examples of different types of scissors, forceps, and retractors and their specific uses. Standard instrument sets for basic, major, and minor surgeries are also outlined, containing surgical towels, sheets, gowns, and various instruments like forceps, needle holders, and retractors.

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Common Operating Room Instruments

• Blade handle

• blade/scalpel

• Scissors
• Straight
• Mayo Scissor
• Tissue and fascia

• Metzenbaum
• delicate tissues

• Tenotomy
• tendons and small blood vessels

• Kelly forcep
• Straight
• Cuved

• Allis forceps

• Mosquito forceps

• Tissue forceps
• grasping instruments
• Thumb forceps
• delicate tissues

• Adsons forceps
• Grasping instrument

• Towel clips
• Secure surgical towels during draping
• Richardson
• major operations

• Balfour self retaining retractor


• retract abdominal field
• May bladder retractor to protect it from accidental cutting

• Army-navy retractors
• Deaver retractors
• major operation to expose the operative field

• Anal retractor
• anal surgeries

• Senn retractor
• offer it through the blunt side, be cautious of the sharp side
• Yankauer suction tip
• attached with the connecting tube
• Used to drain fluid/blood at the operative field

• Vaginal speculum
• used in vaginal operations such as D&C, Pap smear

• Nasal speculum
• To view nasal canal

• Probe/Dilator
• Needle holder
• for suturing

• Cautery pencil
• blue button - to coagulate/cut with lesser bleeding
• Yellow - cut only

• cautery/electrosurgical plate
• to prevent electrocution
• Babcock forceps

• Ovum forceps

• Mayo-collins retractor

• Indicator tape
• Surgical towel

• Laparotomy sheet
BASIC SET
• 5-6 surgical towel
• 1 square sheet
• 4-5 sterile gown
• 1 pillow case
• 1 small sheet
• 1 laparotomy sheet

MAJOR SET
• 4 towel clips
• 2 army navy clamps
• 2 mayo collins
• 6 small keylly curved
• 6 medium kelly curved
• 2 medium kelly straight
• 4 allis forceps
• 2 babcock
• 2 needle holder
• 1 ovum forceps
• 2 tissue forceps
• 2 thumb forceps
• 1 blade handle number 3
• 1 blade handle number 4
• Indicator tape (indicates the sterile field)

MINOR SET
1. 4 towel clips
2. 6 mosquito forceps
3. 1 blade number 3
4. 1 needle holder
5. 1 pair of senn retractor
6. 4 adsons forceps (2 with and 2 without teeth)
7. 1 allis forceps

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