Vet Med Surgical Instruments

#3 knife handle

used to GRASP TISSUE in suturing

usually in 4 inch lengths

manufactured with or without teeth

Adson Thumb Forceps

Used to hold tissues and can be used as a retractor. Use caution as it can cause tissue damage.

Allis

Double-ended, smooth blade used to retract skin, fat, and muscle.

Army-Navy retractor

Used to grasp delicate tissue without damaging it (i.e. intestines, uterus, etc.)

Babcock Tissue Forceps

used to attach towels and drapes to the pt. and pointed tips that curve and join like ice tongs

Backhaus Towel Clamps

Provides increased exposure of abdominal cavity.

Balfour retractor

most useful for small animal surgery

detachable blades #10, 11, 12, and 15

Bard-Parker Handle #3

most commonly used for large animal surgeries

detachable blades #20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25

Bard-Parker Handle #4

Preferred skin thumb forceps. Broad and inter-meshing tips give "delicate" grip ideal for fascia/skin/connective tissue.

Brown- Adson Thumb Forceps

Used to clamp small to medium- sized blood vessels.

Crile Hemostats

Very long hemostats.

Can be used to pack orifices or handle contaminated bandage dressings

dressing forceps

Tough tissue bundles

Ferguson Angiotribe forceps

maintain wound exposure during general, orthopedic and neurosurgery

Gelpi Retractor

Used to clamp small vessels. Jaw forms a small point.

Halsted Mosquito Hemostats

used to stop bleeding by crushing tissue and vessels.

Hemostatic Forceps

Used for intraocular tissue. Sharp points

Iris Scissors

Used to clamp small to medium- sized blood vessels. Only the distal half of the jaws contain transverse grooves.

Kelly Hemostats

used to remove bandages and other dressings; blunt triangle blade designed to push skin away as the tip is slipped under material; angled to allow fingers to get under scissors

Lister bandage scissors

thin metal easily bent to desired shape.

Malleable retractor

Used to cut through tissue; fasica, straight or curved.

Mayo Scissors

Used to drive suture needles through tissue.

Mayo-Hegar needle driver

Metzenbaum DIssecting Scissors

Uses- cutting delicate tissue

Hold curved suture needles during suturing

Perform suture ties

Needle Holder

used for general procedures; most common blade

fits handle #3

No. 10 blade

used to puncture; fine point

fits handle #3

No. 11 blade

Used to lance an abscess

fits handle #3

No. 12 blade

used for small or very precise incision or curved incisions. Commonly used for declaw in cats

fits handle #3

No. 15 blade

mostly used in large animal procedures

fits handles #4 or #8

No. 20 blade

mostly used in large animal procedures

fits handles #4 or #8

No. 23 blade

to drive suture needles through tissue that requires suturing and to assist in tying sutures. can cut the suture as well

Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder

To grasp skin and other dense tissues so as to place sutures. Can cause extensive damage to delicate tissue.

Rat-tooth thumb forceps

surgical instrument used for holding back skin, fat or muscle to provide good visibility of the surgical site

retractors

Used to clamp tissue bundles that contain blood vessels. Longitudinal grooves and cross grooves at the tip.

Rochester Carmalt Forcep

Used in orthopedic and large animal surgery

Rochester-Ochsner forceps

Used to clamp blood vessels or large tissue bundles

Rochester-Pean forceps

bead or ball attached to jaws to prevent towel from slipping toward the box lock of the forceps.

Roeder towel clamps

a surgical knife used to make incisions.

Scapel

Instruments designed to cut tissue, suture wire or bandage material

Scissors

used to hold back tissue from the surgical wound. 1 smooth blade, 1 blade with 3 sharp or blunt prongs

Senn Retractor

Used for spays, hand held. Exposes the horn of the uterus

Snook Hook

designed to move sutures from incision line

Suture Scissors

Special tissue forceps

Hold and easily release tissue with a simple finger motion (tweezers)

Thumb Forceps

used for grasping portions of tissue. Maintain the hold with the use of ratchet device on the handle. Designed for little of no tissue trauma.

Tissue Forcep

Blunt prongs face out to hold tissue edges open. used in medium to large sized operative site.

Weitlaner retractor

Used to retract ribs during thoracic procedures.

Wilson rib spreaders

used in orthopedic procedures to cut wire or wire sutures
~compact blades
~4 3/4 inches long
~serrated surface

Wire cutting scissors