"CUTTING INSTRUMENTS"
1. KNIFE/SCALPEL HOLDER
- use for anatomical dissection
2. SUTURE/STITCH SCISSORS
- designed for easy removal of
sutures
3. MAYO SCISSSORS
- used for cutting sutures
4. BANDAGE SCISSORS
- size bandages and dressings
- cut gauze and bandages
5. METZENBAUM
- cut delicate tissues
"TISSUE FORCEPS"
1. FORCEPS WITHOUT TEETH:
LONG AND RESTISSUE
GULAR
- fine handling of tissue
-traction during dissection
2. TISSUE FORCEPS WITH
TEETH: LONG AND REGUL
- grasping moderate to heavy
tissue
- used during wound closure
3. RUSSIAN TISSUE FORCEP
-grasp dense tissue
4. DEBAKEY TISSUE FORCEP
- grasp tissue in vascular
procedures
5. ADSON TISSUE FORCEP
- hold and manipulate tissues
"GRASPING INSTRUMENT"
1. BABCOCK
- grab delicate tissue
2. ALLIS
- hold or grasp heavy tissue
3. KOCHER (OCHSNER)
- grasp tough, fibrous, slippery
tissues such as muscles and
fascia
4. FOESTER (OVUM)
- creating a sponge stick
-grsasping tissue such as lungs
- removing uterine contents
5. BACKHAUS TOWEL CLAMP
- grasping tissue
- securing towel or drapes
- holding or reducing small bones
fracture
6. RANDALL STONE FORCEPS
- grasping and removing kidney
stones, gallstone and polyps
7. TENACULUM
- hold/pick up small pieces of
tissue such
as the end of arteries
"CLAMPING INSTRUMENTS"
1. CURVED MOSQUITO
- easier placement of ligatures
around the forceps
- use in surgery for temporary
occlusion of
vessel
2. STRAIGHT MOSQUITO
- hold delicate tissue
-use in most surgical.procedure
3. KELLY CLAMP
- occlude bleeding before ligation
4. CRILE FORCEPS
- clamping blood vessels or
tissue before cauterization or
ligation
5. MIXTER/RIGHT ANGLED
FORCEPS
- clamping, dissection or
grasping tissue
6. PEAN
- clamping large tissues and
vessels
"RETRACTORS"
1. SENN
- exposing superficial wound
2. VOLKMANN
- small bone and joint procedures
3. ARMY/NAVY
-retract incisions that are small or
shallow
or layers of skin
4. DEAVER
- deep wound retraction
5. MALLEABLE
- deep wound retraction
6. RICHARDSON
- holding back multiple layers of
deep tissue
7. WEITLANER
- Self retaining
- sharp or dull
-exposing superficial wound
8. VEIN RETRACTOR
- used during neurosurgery or as
rib soreaders
9. SKIN HOOKS
- retract the soft tissues
10. LANGENBECK
- manual superficial retraction
11. GREEN GOITER a.k.a.
GOITER RETRACTOR/LOOP
RETRACTOR
- retracting soft tissue
12. BALFOUR WITH SELF
RETAINING RETRACTOR
-hold an incision or wound open
- used in abdominal surgery
"KNIFE AND BLADES"
1. NO. 3 KNIFE HANDLE
- used to hold varioud blades to
create a scalpel
2. NO. 7 KNIFE HANDLE
- Precision cutting/deep wound
3. NO. 4 KNIFE HANDLE
- larger tip to accomodate larger
blades
4. NO.10 BLADE
- making skin incisions
5. NO. 11 BLADE
- puncturing the skin
- initiate opening of artery
6. NO. 12 BLADE
- tonsillectomy, parotid surgeries,
septoplasties and cleft palate
procedures
7. NO. 15 BLADE
- creating small precise incision
8. NO. 20 BLADE
- used with no. 4
-larger/deeper incision on heavy
tissues and bone
