RLE 112 JAMAILA BANGCOLA, SN
The Basic Surgical Instruments Lister/Bandage Scissors
● Cutting and Dissecting
● Grasping and Holding
● Retracting and Exposing
● Clamping and Occluding
Cutting and Dissecting Instruments
These are sharp and are used to cut body tissue or Note: the blunt tip on one edge
surgical suppies Used to trim bandages to custom size, to cut
through clothing or gauze and to help remove
Scalpel Blade bandages that someone is wearing
Suture Scissors
7 handle with 10 blade (deep knife) - used to cut
deep, delicate
3 handle with 10 blade (inside knife) - used to cut
superficial tissue
4 nandle with 20 blade (skin knife) - used to cut
skin
Mayo Scissors Note: Concave Edge on one Side
Curved Straight Mayo Scissors Use in cutting sutures
Note: With thick Shank a. Angled Suture Scissors
These are used to cut suture materials and cutting
tough fissues. Stitch Scissors
Metzenbaum - use only with non-absorbable sutures
Curveerstraight Metzenbaum
Note: With thin Shank and curved tips
These are used for tissue dissection and cutting
delicate tissues.
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Grasping and Holding Instruments Randall Stone Forceps
are used to hold tissue, drapes or spanges
Tissue Forceps
These are available in various lengths, with or
without teeth, and smooth or serrated jaws
1. DeBakey Tissue Forceps
- to remove kidney stone
Tenaculum
- used to grasp delicate tissue, particularly
in cardiovascular surgery.
2. Adson Tissue Forceps
- used to grasp cervix
Backhaus Towel Clamp
.
- these are either smooth: used to grasp
delicate tissue, or with teeth: used to grasp
the skin. Other names: Dura forceps
3. Russian Tissue Forceps
- to anchor drapes and towels
- they have serration up to the tips, allowing
better grasp of tissue with minimum trauma.
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Allis Clamp Babcock Clamp
- has sharp teeth to hold tissue firmly but can - used in muscular and facial layers: delicate
cause damage, so only used in ta sue, lissue (in tube, ovary)
which will be excised. Used to grasp
subcutaneous layer and tissues Retracting and Exposing Instruments
Used hold back or retract organs or tissues to gain
Kocher/Oschsner Clamp exposure to the operative site. They are either “self
-retaining” (stay open on their own) or "manual"
(held by hand). When Identitying retractors, look at
the blade, not the handle
Richardon
- Straight or Curved
- it is used to grasp heavy tissue. May be
used as a damp double single
Ovum( Foerster) - for deep abdominal and chest incisions.
- used to pull layers of tissue
US Army Navy
- for DR
- control of bleeding
- to grasp sponges - for shallow or superficial incision
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Senn Vein Retractor
- for minor surgery like arterio-venous
- Wrist or'antecubital area
- Dull or sharp - used in vein stripping (varicose veins)
Deaver Volkman Rake
- used to retract deep abdominal or chest
- used in retracting skin layers
incisions. Available in various widths.
Green Goiter
Malleable
- for thyroidectomy
- used to retract deep wounds
RLE 112 JAMAILA BANGCOLA, SN
Weitlaner Straight Mosquito/ Halsted
- used to open neck muscles HEMOSTAT COMPONENT
- for thyroidectomy - used to clamp skin, small blood vessels
Skin Hooks Kelly Clamp
- used to retract thin skin, like eyelids - Curved or Straight
Note: The tip has haif serrations
Vaginal Specelum HEMOSTAT COMPONENT
- Used to clamp larger blood vessels and
tissues
- Curved Kelly-for pentoneum
Crile Clamp
- for Pap Smear, D&C, Visualization of Cervix
Clamping and Occluding Instruments
They are used to compress blood vessels or hollow - Curved or Straight
organs for hemostasis or to prevent spillage of Note: The tip has haif serrations
contents HEMOSTAT COMPONENT
- Curved crile
- for fascia ,subcutaneous, &
muscular area
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Pean (Rochester-Pean) Clamp
- for Gastrectomy
Right-Angled (Mixter /Dissector) Forceps
- used to hold a peanut
Miscellaneous
Curette
- Sharp or Dull
- for scraping uterine wall
- for Double Set-Up
Hysterometer
- used with Vaginal Speculum
- Measures depth of Uterus
- with Gradations