CUTTING INSTRUMENTS
MAYO SCISSORS
- Use for cutting sutures
BANDAGE SCISSOR
- To size bandage and dressings. To cut
through medical gauze. To cut through bandages
already in place.
KNIFE/SCALPEL HOLDER
- Use for anatomical dissection.
METZENBAUM
- Use for cutting delicate tissues
SUTURE/STITCH SCISSORS
- Designed for easy removal of sutures
TISSUE FORCEPS
FORCEPS WITHOUT TEETH: LONG AND RETISSUE
GULAR
- Non toothed forceps used for fine handling of
tissue and traction during dissection.
TISSUE FORCEPS WITH TEETH: LONG AND REGUL
- Used for grasping moderate to heavy tissue and
used during wound clcosure.
RUSSIAN TISSUE FORCEP
- Use to grasp dense tissue
DEBAKEY TISSUE FORCEP
- To grasp in vascular procedures
ADSON TISSUE FORCEP
- Hold and manipulate tissues (grasp)
GRASPING INSTRUMENTS
BABCOCK
- Use to grasp delicate tissue
ALLIS
- Use to hold or grasp heavy tissues
KOCHER (OCHSNER)
- Used for grasping tough, fibrous, slippery tissues
such as muscle and fascia.
FOERSTER (OVUM)
- Used for creating a sponge stick, for grasping tissue
such as the lungs, or for removing uterine contents.
BACKHAUS TOWEL CLAMP
- Used for grasping tissue, securing towels or
drapes and holding or reducing small bones
fracture.
RANDALL STONE FORCEPS
- Used for grasping and removing kidney stone,
gallstone and polyps.
TENACULUM
- Used to hold or pick up small pieces of
tissue such as the ends of arteries.
CLAMPING INSTRUMENTS
CURVED MOSQUITO
- Allow easier placement of ligatures around the
forceps and also use in surgery for temporary occlusion
of a vessel.
STRAIGHT MOSQUITO
- To hold delicate tissue and use in most surgical
procedure.
KELLY CLAMP
- Used to occlude bleeding before ligation (stops bleeding
before closing off a blood vessel)
CRILE FORCEPS
- Use for clamping blood vessels or tissue before
cauterization or ligation.
MIXTER/RIGHT-ANGLED FORCEPS
- Use for clamping, dissection, or grasping tissue
PEAN
- Use for clamping large tissues and vessels.
RETRACTORS
SENN
- Used for exposing superficial wound.
VOLKMANN
- Retractor commonly used in small bone and joint
procedures.
ARMY NAVY
- Use to retract incisions that are small or shallow or
layers of skin.
DEAVER
- Use for deep wound retraction
MALLEABLE
- Used for deep wound retraction
RICHARDSON
- Use for holding back multiple layers of deep tissue
WEITLANER
- Self-retaining; sharp or dull ; used for exposing
superficial wound
VEIN RETRACTOR
- Popular retractor used during nuerosurgery or as rib spreaders.
SKIN HOOKS
- Used to retract the soft tissues
LANGENBECK
- Widely used for manual superficial retraction
(skin/subscutaneous tissue )
GREEN GOITER/ A.K.A GOITER RETRACTOR; LOOP
RETRACTOR
- Used for retracting soft tissue.
BALFOUR WITH SELF RETAINING RETRACTOR
- Are surgical instruments that are used to hold an incision or
wound open during surgical procedures. Used in abdominal
surgery to hold open the abdominal.
BLADE/KNIFE HANDLE
NO. 3 KNIFE HANDLE
NO. 7 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 15 BLADE
NO. 4 KNIFE HANDLE
NO. 10 BALDE NO. 20 BLADE
NO. 11 BLADE
NO. 12 BLADE