ENT INSTRUMENTS
Jobson Horne ear probe
• 2 ENDS
• One end serrated
• Other end ring
• Uses:
• RING end- Removal of wax, foreign body,
granulation
• Probe end- clean the ear with cotton swab,
otoscope
Handheld light source and a
Speculum Convex lens with
2x magnification
Seigel’s pneumatic speculum
Toynbees Aural Speculum
Use : To visualize auditory canal & tympanic canal,
in Ear Surgeries.
• Hartmann Ear dressing forceps
Tip – wide,serrated
Use : for dressing, medicated pledges,
remove foreign body from external ear
• Tilley’s nasal dressing
forceps
Use : Nasal packing, ear dressing
removal of foreign body
Thudicum nasal
speculum
• Use: in anterior rhinoscopy
examination, for nasal packing
TUNING FORK
Killian Nasal speculum
• Self Retaining
• Use: Diagnostic – Anterior
rhinoscopy, therapeutic – SMR,
nasal packing
St Clair Thompson posterior rhinoscopic mirror
• Bayonet Shaped
• use: posterior rhinoscopic examination
Indirect Laryngoscopy Mirror
• Size: 8 – 30 mm
• Use: to visualise vocal cord structures
Luc’s tongue depressor
• Use : to depress the tongue for
examination of oral cavity and oropharynx
MYRINGOTOMY KNIFE
Mollison Mastoid retractor
• Self retaining hemostatic
• Use: In mastoidectomy to retract soft
tissue and elevation of flap
Jansen mastoid retractor
Lemperts Bone curette
Use : To Scraping/debriding bone, remove
granulation tissue
Mac ewen cell
seeker and curette
House curette
Use : In Mastoidectomy to curette bone with
precision.
Farabeufs mastoid periosteal
elevator
• Use: Elevation of periosteum from
mastoid cortex in mastoidectomy
Crocodile forceps
and wullstein
cupped forceps
• Hinged jaws – traumatic to
tissues
• Use: In glue ear – to insert
grommet into eardrum,
Aural curette / Ear
wax hooks
• Lucae curette – Round spoon
end
• Jobson horne probe – Ring
curette + probe
• Rosen hook – Sharp fine hook
for deep wax
• House curette – Curved cup for
deep canal work
Burr
• Cutting burr – bone removal
• Diamond burr – Polishing near facial
nerve, ossicles
Rosens knife and
straight pick
Use : Curved narrow tip – to
separate soft tissues from
underlying bone
In Mastoid surgeries
Freer’s double ended elevator
Use : To elevate mucoperichondrium /
periosteum in SMR / Septoplasty
Freer Elevator
• Double ended
• Use: Septoplasty, SMR for mucoperichondrial elevation
Ballenger Swivel Knife
• Revolve automatically and changes direction
while cutting cartilage
• Use: SMR operation, Harvest septal cartilage
graft
Killian Nasal Gouge and
Mallete
• Bayonet shaped
• Use: Removal of septal spur, Used
with osteotome
Heymann turbinectomy scissors
Luc’s forceps
Luc’s Forceps
Use : In Caldwell luc operation & FESS -to
remove mucosa,
In SMR – to remove bone and cartilage
Kerrison Bone Punch
Use : To punch hole in sphenoid bone – to
remove infected sphenoid sinus
Asch Septum Forceps
• Use: Reducing fracture of nasal septum
Walsham’s forceps
Blakesly forceps
• Types - 0⁰,45⁰,90⁰
• Use: FESS to remove polyp and unhealthy
mucosa
Backbiting forceps
• Use: In FESS for creating and enlarging
sinus ostia, cutting dissecting tissue
Boyle – Davis Mouth gag
with tongue blades
• For opening mouth and depressing tongue
• Use: Tonsillectomy, adenoidectomy, palate
surgery
Draffin Bipod’s stand
with Magauran’s plate
• Each pod has 4 rings to
suspend Boyle davis mouth
gag
St Clair Thompson adenoid
curette with cage
• Use: in adenoidectomy – Shaves adenoid mass
• Guard – prevents slipping
Tonsil holding
vulsellum
• Mollison tonsillar dissector and pillar
retractor
• Flat blunt end – separate tonsil from tonsillar
bed
• Curved notched end – retract anterior
tonsillar pillar to expose tonsil
Waughs Toothed and non toothed
forceps
Eves Tonsilar snare
• Use: Tonsillectomy
• Minimise the bleeding by crushing and cutting pedicle
Birketts Straight artery forceps
• Use: Hemostasis, holding a swab for moping
Negus artery forceps
• Parts: Locking ratchet, handle,
shank, curved jaw
• Use: hemostasis in
tonsillectomy
Curved artery forceps
• Use: Hemostasis, holding a swab for moping
•Negus knot tier
• Hemostasis, helps to carry ligature knot deep to
tie it
Yankauer suction tube
• Distal end – funnel shaped
• Curved rigid metal tube
• Use: Suction
Trousseau Tracheal dilator
• Use: Tracheostomy to keep tracheal just
edges open after incision
•J curette
• Scoop out granulation tissue, crust, polyp
• Curettage of adenoid tissue
• Sinus ostium ball point probe
• Use: to lacate sinus ostium ( maxillary and
sphenoid), resect uncinate process
NASAL SCOOP
For Nasal Foreign Body Removal
Antrum ball probe
Use : To enlarge maxillary sinus antrum opening,
To break loculations inside maxillary sinus
Frazier Suction Cannula
Tube
Use : In FESS – to clear mucus & blood from
nasal passage/sinus,
To remove fluid/blood/cerumen/foreign
body from earcanal
Langenback Retractor
Double Tracheal hook
• Use: Tracheostomy to stabilise trachea,
Retract thyroid isthmus to expose trachea
Curved Artery Forceps
• Parts – Curved jaw, ratchet, serrated blades
• Use: Hemostasis, tissue handling
Wilde’s dressing
forceps
• Bayonet Shape
• Use: packing or unpacking ear
Simpson Aural syringe
• Use: Remove softened wax, foreign
body
Chevalier Jackson Laryngoscope
• Blade – Straight + upward curved tip
• Use : Pediatric airway examination, foreign body removal
Anterior commissure laryngoscope
• Distal end – Beveled anteriorly
• Use: visualise anterior commissure, micro
laryngeal surgery
Chest Support
• Holds and stabilises the laryngoscope at
required angle and height
• Use: Microlaryngeal surgery
Oesophagoscope
• Distal end smooth blunt
• Proximal end handle
• Use: Foreign body removal, Diagnostic oesophagoscopy
RADIOLOGICAL
INVESTIGATIONS
X –RAY
MASTOID
LAW’S VIEW
X –RAY
BOTH MASTOID
SCHULLER’S VIEW
X –RAY PARANASAL
SINUS WATER’S VIEW
X –RAY
BOTH NASAL
BONES
LATERAL VIEW
X- RAY SOFT TISSUE
NECK LATERAL VIEW
X – RAY
SOFT TISSUE NASO
PHARYNX LATERAL VIEW
WITH
ADENOID ENLARGE
X –RAY SOFT TISSUE
NECK WITH
FOREIGN BODY COIN
X- RAY SOFT TISSUE
NECK LATERAL VIEW
WITH
EPIGLOTTITIS
PLAIN CT – NOSE
&
PARA NASAL SINUS
CT – PNS WITH
CHRONIC
SINUSITIS
X-RAY SOFT TISSUE
NECK WITH
RETROPHARYNGEAL
ABSCESS