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Surgical Instrument

The document describes various surgical instruments used in cutting, dissecting, clamping, retracting, and holding tissue. It provides details on the intended uses and applications of instruments including various types of scissors, forceps, clamps and retractors. Key instruments highlighted are Mayo scissors for cutting heavy tissue, Metzenbaum scissors for delicate tissue, Allis forceps for skin and deep tissue, mosquito hemostats for clamping small blood vessels, and Deaver and Richardson retractors for deep abdominal and chest incisions.

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Surgical Instrument

The document describes various surgical instruments used in cutting, dissecting, clamping, retracting, and holding tissue. It provides details on the intended uses and applications of instruments including various types of scissors, forceps, clamps and retractors. Key instruments highlighted are Mayo scissors for cutting heavy tissue, Metzenbaum scissors for delicate tissue, Allis forceps for skin and deep tissue, mosquito hemostats for clamping small blood vessels, and Deaver and Richardson retractors for deep abdominal and chest incisions.

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CUTTING AND

DISSECTING:
SCISSORS
KNIFE BLADE
HANDLE:
BLADE:
7
3 15 Deep Skin (DELICATE TISSUE)
10 Inside (SUPERFICIAL SKIN)
4
20 Skin (CUT SKIN)

- Used to cut SUTURE


AND SUPPLIES
STRAIGHT MAYO
- Also known as
SCISSORS SUTURE SCISSORS

- Used to cut HEAVY


TISSUE like
CURVED MAYO ( FASCIA, MUSCLE, UTERUS,
BREAST)
SCISSORS

- Used to cut delicate


METZENBAUM tissue
SCISSORS
STRAIGHT(METZ)
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

METZENBAUM
SCISSORS CURVED
(METZ)

IRIS SCISSORS

FORCEPS

- Used to hold tissue.


ALLIS FORCEP - FOR SKIN

STRAIGHT

ALLIS FORCEP CURVED - Deep tissue

- Used to grasp delicate


BABCOCK FORCEP tissue like
( INTESTINE, FALLOPIAN
TUBE, AND OVARY).
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

- Used to grasp HEAVY


KOCHER/OCHSNER TISSSUE.

SPONGE STICK - Used to pick up things in


OR

TOWEL CLIP

- Used for grasping and


holding TISSUE, MUSCLE
1x2 TOOTHED TISSUE or SKIN SURROUNDING
A WOUND.
FORCEPS

- Used to hold tissue in


PLAIN THUMB place when applying
sutures.
FORCEPS
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

- Fine tip for foreign


SPLINTER FORCEPS object retrieval.

- Used to grasp delicate


tissue.
ADSON WITH TEETH
FORCEP - Also known as DURA
FORCEPS

- Used to HOLD and PASS


NEEDLE HOLDER a SUTURING NEEDLE
through TISSUE.

- Has a groove to hold


needle within jaws.

BANDAGE SCISSORS

CLAMPING AND
OCLUDDING
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

- Used to clamp SMALL


MOSQUITO STRAIGHT BLOOD VESSELS

- Used to hold delicate


tissue.

- Used to compress
MOSQUITO CURVED bleeding vessels.

RETRACTING AND
EXPOSING:

- Used to RETRACT DEEP


ABDOMINAL or CHEST
DEAVER INCISIONS

- Used to RETRACT DEEP


ABDOMINAL or CHEST
RICHARDSON INCISIONS

- Used to RETRACT
ARMY NAVY SHALLOW or
SUPERFICIAL INCISIONS.
RETRACTOR
SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

- Used to RETRACT DEEP


WOUNDS.
MALEABLE or RIBBON - May be BENT TO
VAROIUS SHAPE.
RETRACTOR

BALFOUR WITH - Used to retract WOUND


EDGES doing DEEP
BLADDER BLADE ABDOMINAL .

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