Surgical Instruments

Towel Clip

• securing towels/ drapes

• grasping tissue that will be removed holding or reducing small bone fragments

Sponge/Ovum forcep

• grasping tissue

• holding sponges

Sponge stick

term used for a sponge forceps holding a 4x8 OS in a triangular fold.

Pool suction

suctioning large quantities of blood

Needle holder

• holding suture needles

Cautery Pencil and Cautery Tip

• Cauterizing blood vessel and/or cutting t issues.

Anoscope with Obturator

• Retracting or viewing anal canal

Adson w/o teeth

Grasping tissues and applying dressings

Adson w/ teeth (Adson tissue forceps)

Grasping skin layer during wound closure

Thumb forcep

Grasping tissue/ Applying dressing

Tissue forcep

Grasping tissue during skin closure

Debakey forcep

Grasping fine tissues

Allis

Grasping organs or tissue during removal

Babcock

Grasping delicate tissues (ex. Fallopian tube, bowel, vas deferens)

Kochers/Ochsner

Grasping heavy tissues (Fascia)

Kelly Curve Clamp (Roundnose)

Clamping large blood vessels or tissues

Mosquito curve clamp/snap/hemostat

Clamping delicate tissues or blood vessels

Mixter

- Clamping tissue or grasping ligature around a curve. (ex. Pedicle/Blood vessel)

Mayo curved scissors

Cutting heavy tissues or muscles; dissecting heavy tissue

Metzenbaum

Cutting or dissecting delicate tissues

Suture scissors

Cutting dressings, drains and sutures.

Blade Handle #3 and 7

Use blades #10, #11, #12, #15

Blade Handle #4

Use blade #20, #21, #22, #23

#11 Blade

makes “small” puncture incisions

• A.K.A. “STAB KNIFE”

#15 Blade

Cutting in small areas incising delicate tissues

#21

Cutting heavy tissue or bone

Balfour retractor

A kind of self-retaining retractor - For deep abdominal retraction

Bladder retractor

Part of a Balfour retractor that separates the Urinary Bladder from the Uterus

Richardson retractor

Retraction, exposing wound

Army-Navy Retractor

Exposing Superficial Wound

Deaver Retractor

Deep Wound Retraction

Malleable/Ribbon retractor

May be bent to desired shape

Deep wound retraction