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This document provides descriptions of various surgical instruments including forceps, retractors, scalpels, and clamps. It lists each instrument and briefly outlines its common medical uses such as grasping, holding, or cutting tissues. The document aims to inform medical practitioners about the basic functions and applications of standard surgical tools.

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This document provides descriptions of various surgical instruments including forceps, retractors, scalpels, and clamps. It lists each instrument and briefly outlines its common medical uses such as grasping, holding, or cutting tissues. The document aims to inform medical practitioners about the basic functions and applications of standard surgical tools.

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KNIFE/SCALPEL HOLDER SUTURE/STITCH

SCISSORS
- use for anatomical
dissection - easy removal of sutures

MAYO BANDAGE SCISSORS

- cutting sutures - to cut bandages,


dressings, and gauze

METZENBAUM FORCEPS W/O TEETH:


LONG AND RETISSUE
- cutting delicate tissues GULAR

- non toothed forceps used


for ne handling of tissue
and traction during
dissection

FORCEPS WITH TEETH: RUSSIAN TISSUE FORCEP


LONG AND REGUL
- grasp dense tissue
- grasping moderate to
heavy tissue and used
during wound closure

DEBAKEY TISSUE ADSON TISSUE FORCCEP


FORCEP
- hold and manipulate tissue
- grasp tissue in vascular
procedures
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BABCOCK ALLIS FORCEPS

- grasp delicate tissue - hold and grasp heavy


tissue

KOCHER (OCHSNER) FOERSTER (OVUM)

- grasping tough, brous, - creating a sponge stick,


slippery tissues such ass grasping tissues such as
muscle and fascia lungs, or removing uterine
contents

BACKHAUS TOWEL RANDALL STONE


CLAMP FORCEP

- grasping tissue, securing - grasping and removing


towels, or drapes and kidney stone, gallstone, and
holding or reducing small polyps
bones fracture

TENACULUM CURVED MOSQUITO

- hold or pick up small - easier placement of


pieces of tissue such as the ligatures around the forceps
end or arteries and also use in the surgery
for temporary occlusion of a
vessel

STRAIGHT MOSQUITO KELLY CLAMP

- hold delicate tissue and - occlude bleeding before


use in most surgical ligation
procedure
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CRILE FORCEP MIXTER/RIGHT ANGLED
FROCEP
- clamping blood vessels or
tissue before cauterization or - clamping, dissection or
ligation grasping tissue

PEAN SENN

- clamping large tissue and - exposing super cial wound


vessels

VOLKMANN ARMY NAVY

- used in small bones and - retract incisions that are


joint procedures small or shallow or layers of
skin

DEAVER MALLEABLE

- deep wound retraction - deep wound retraction

RICHARDSON WEITLANER

- holding back multiple layers - self retaining; sharp and


of deep tissue dull; exposing super cial
wound
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VEIN RETRACTOR SKIN HOOKS

- popular retractor used - retract soft tissue


during neurosurgery or as rib
spreaders

LANGENBECK GREEN GOITER

- manual super cial retraction - retracting soft tissue


purposes. Split muscle
during gaining entry into the
abdomen in the right iliac
loss during an
appendicectomy

BALFOUR WITH SELF NO. 3 KNIFE HANDLE


RETAINING RETRACTOR
- hold various blades to
- hold an incision or wound create a scalpel
open during surgical
procedures. Used in
abdominal surgery to hold

NO. 7 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 4 KNIFE HANDLE

- precision cutting is needed - larger top to accommodate


in a con ned space or a deep the larger blades
wound

NO. 10 BLADE NO. 11 BLADE

- making skin incisions - puncturing the skin or to


initiate the opening of an
artery
fi
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NO. 12 BLADE NO. 15 BLADE

- used during tonsillectomies, - creating small precise


parotid surgeries, incisions
septoplasties, and cleft palate
procedures

NO. 20 BLADE

- used with no. 4 handle to


create a larger and/or deeper
incision and on heavy tissues
and bone

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