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Essential Medical Needles and Tools Guide

The document outlines various medical needles and tools used for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including lumbar puncture, liver biopsy, and bone marrow aspiration. It details their indications, contraindications, and complications, as well as other laboratory equipment like Wintrobe’s tube and urinometer. Each item is described with its specific use and characteristics relevant to medical practice.

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Essential Medical Needles and Tools Guide

The document outlines various medical needles and tools used for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including lumbar puncture, liver biopsy, and bone marrow aspiration. It details their indications, contraindications, and complications, as well as other laboratory equipment like Wintrobe’s tube and urinometer. Each item is described with its specific use and characteristics relevant to medical practice.

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1.

Lumbar puncture needle

• Use:
-diagnostic:
• infections
• leukemic involvement of CNS
• Sub arachnoid hemorrhage
• CNS tumor.
-therapeutic:administration of
• antibiotics
• anaesthetics
• anticancer drugs.

• Site: b/w L3 & L4 or L4 & L5


• Contraindications:
-raised ICT
-bleeding diathesis
• Complication:
-infection
-post puncture headache
-hematoma
2. Liver biopsy needle

• Identi cation: long needle with bi d end.


• Indications:
-A/c hepatitis of unknown cause
-hepatic tumors
-c/c liver disease
Contraindications:
-bleeding diathesis
-hydatid cyst
-vascular tumors
3. Bone marrow aspiration needle

Salah needle

Sites:
• Posterior superior iliac spine
• Sternum
• Spinous process of lumbar
vertebra
Indication:
• Unexplained cytopenias
• Suspected A/c leukemia
• Storage disorders
Bone marrow trephine biopsy

Jamshidi needle

Indication:
• Repeated dry tap
• Aplastic anemia
• Myelo brosis
• Hairy cell leukemia
4. Wintrobe’s tube

• Length :11 cm
• One end closed
• Use: PCV, ESR
• Internal diameter : 2.5 mm
• Calibration : 0-10cm (1mm
interval)
• Capacity : 1 ml blood
• Anticoagulant : double oxalate
(Amm. Ox & pot. Ox in 3:2 ratio)
5. Westergren’s ESR tube

• Length : 30 cm
• Open at both ends
• Use : measure ESR
• Calibration : 0-200 mm
• Capacity : 2 ml blood
6. Urinometer

• Measure speci c
gravity of urine.
• Based on
bouyancy
principle
• Marking : 1.000-
1.060
7. Vacutainer

Osmotic fragility
8. Blood collection bag

• Volume : 450 ml blood


• Contain CPDA (63ml)
9. Ayre’s spatula

• Bi d end( concave ): cervival smear


• Spoon end(convex): buccal smear
• Pap smear
-hormonal evaluation
-identi cation of benign & malignant
tumors.
10. Perforated Tissue processing capsule

• perforation help the tissue to


undergo various tissue processing.
• Fixative :10% formalin
11. Paraf n block

• Use: Taking thin tissue sections


• Microtome: slicing instrument
12. L- block

• Leuckhardt’s block
• Form moulds of desired size
• Embedding of tissue
13. Koplin jar

• Identi cation :
- White coloured jar with a lid
- xation & staining jar
- xative : 95% isopropyl alcohol

• Uses :
- used to keep the slide having tissue for
histopathologic & cytologic purposes.
(eg: Pap smear)
- preparative chamber for thin layer
chromatography .

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