FORCEPS Surgical Instrument Tenaculum Forceps Description and Its Use A slender sharp-pointed hook attached to a handle and
is used mainly in surgery for seizing and holding parts, such as blood vessels. Its also use in steadying the cervix and uterus during insertion of an intrauterine device. It is commonly used to remove placental fragments inside the uterus. It is also used as a hemostat or a clamping instrument. A stainless steel tweezers used to move and hold tissue in place during delicate surgical procedures. These surgical tools, also called thumb forceps, use to grasp, hold and move tissue into place. A forceps with serrated blades and with or without teeth used to pick up fine tissue. Commonly used tweezer-like forceps with rounded, toothed ends for grasping fascia.
Ovum Forceps
Adson Forceps
Thumb Forceps
Russian Forceps
Allis-Thoms Forceps Mixter forceps Kelly forceps
Tissue It is used for grasping soft tissue. It is used for larger work and for dissecting. It is called mosquito forceps, are a device used to grasp small objects. They are commonly used to grab items that are too large for fingers to get hold of, as well as to hold a single object so the hands can remain free to do other things. A forceps without teeth or with one or more small teeth at the end of each blade, designed for handling tissues with minimal trauma during surgery. An instrument designed to chip, crack, or cut away bone and tough tissue such as cartilage. The term comes from a French word meaning rodent, a reference to the fact that rongeurs are designed to gnaw away at tissue and bone, under the control of a surgeon. An instrument used to grasp internal organs.
Tissue Forceps
Rongeurs
Babcock Forceps
SCISSORS Surgical Instrument Straight-Bladed Mayo Scissors Curved-Bladed Mayo Scissors Description and Its Use It is designed for cutting body tissues near the surface of the wound. As the straight Mayo scissor is also used for cutting sutures, or stitches, its also sold as suture scissors. This instrument allows deeper penetration into the wound than the type withstraight blades. The curved style of Mayo scissor is used to cut thick tissues such as those found in the uterus, muscles, breast and foot. Mayo scissors used for dissection are placed in tissue with the tips closed. The scissors are then opened so that the tips open and spread out the tissue during the dissection process It is used to cut delicate soft tissues. Because of their specific function, they sometimes are called Metzenbaum dissecting scissors. The three mains uses of bandage scissors are to trim bandages to custom size, to cut through clothing or gauze, and to help remove bandages that someone is wearing. They help keep the scissors away from the skin so that injury doesnt occur. The blunt tips also help, since there is less likelihood of piercing the skin, as might occur if sharp tipped scissors were used instead.
Metzenbaum Scissors
Bandage Scissors
RETRACTORS Surgical Instrument Army-Navy Retractors Richardson Retractor Description and Its Use A handheld retractor with broad blades used for large muscles. A handheld medical instrument used during chest or abdominal surgery which features a handle and a long shaft with a wide hook, known as a blade, at the end. Surgeons use the blade to grasp soft tissue such as skin, muscle, or internal organs. A surgical instrument used to hold the edges of an abdominal or chest incision open so that the surgeon is able to reach the underlying organs. It is a thin, flat instrument with curved ends. This can also be used to hold organs inside the abdominal cavity away from the surgical site.
Deaver Retractor
Vein Retractor
A metallic instrument ending in a rounded flange set transversely for engaging and retracting soft tissues. A retractor is a surgical instrument by which a surgeon can either actively separate the edges of a surgical incision or wound, or can hold back underlying organs and tissues, so that body parts under the incision may be accessed. A surgical instrument made of malleable metal which can be molded to different shapes to assist in holding back tissues. A surgical instrument which is used by a surgeon to hold open abdominal incisions during a laparotomy. In the case of a Balfour retractor, the device holds itself in place, leaving the hands of surgeon and assistants free to focus on surgical tasks. It is designed to allow inspection of the anal canal and lower rectum. Anal retractors should always be well lubricated prior to insertion and used with care to avoid damage to the anal sphincter.
Bladder Retractor
Malleable Retractor
Balfour Retractor
Anal Retractor
CLAMP Surgical Instrument Lahey Clamp Rochester-Ochsner Clamp A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it. A surgical instrument which is used to secure towels and surgical draping during a medical procedure. In addition to being used in the operating room, towel clamps are also used in procedures in clinics and doctor's offices where drapes are used. A vascular clamp thats multi-purpose and nontraumatic. Sometimes referred to as needle drivers, this type of instrument is mainly ring handled, similar to hemostats but with smaller jaws which are shorter and thicker. Description and Its Use
Towel Clamp
Debakey Clamp Needle Holder
SHARPS Surgical Instrument Scalpels Description And Its Use This instrument comes in many different sizes and is used to make incisions during surgery. This type of instrument is referred to as "sharps" because they are used to cut or incise.
CURETTE Surgical Instrument Curette Description and Its Use It is also sometimes used in the medical procedure known as dilation and curettage, in which the cervix is dilated and the device is used to scrape out the contents of the uterus. Known as a D & C when it is used to terminate a pregnancy, dilation and curettage does not, in fact, always involve a curette. The standard equipment for curetting bone. Shaped like a miniature ice cream scoop it has very sharp and durable edges and a hand-filling, bulbous handle.
Bone Curette
MEASURING INSTRUMENT Surgical Instrument Hysterometer Description and Its Use A graduated sounding instrument for measuring the depth of the uterine cavity. Also called uterometer.
SUTURE Surgical Instrument Surgical suture Description and Its Use A medical device used to hold body tissues together after an injury or surgery. It generally consists of a needle with an attached length of thread.
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