clinical skills lab practical and surgical instruments

vacutainer

IV butterfly

IV catheter

surgical scrub brush

needle driver

bovie

bone wax

Ligating clips

Jackson-Pratt

penrose drain

emesis basin

NG tube

magill forceps

for packing a nose bleed

pledget

silver nitrate sticks

rapid rhino

rhino rocket

cerumen hooks/spoons

alligator forceps

foley catheter

robinson straight catheter

external catheter

11 scalpel blade

15 scalpel blade

straight hemostat

curved hemostat

adson forceps

gauze packing strips

punch biopsy blade

dermablade

hand held thermal cautery

lumbar puncture kit

spinal needle

fiberglass casting material

stockinette

fluorescein strip

morgan lens

oscillating cast saw

cast padding

ace wrap

fluorescein strips

corneal spud

corneal burr

central venous catheterization

chest tube

OPA

NPA

Macintosh Laryngoscope

Miller Laryngoscope

endotracheal tube

malleable metal that goes in endotracheal tube

stylet

carbon dioxide detector

glide scope

Bougie (Tube Inducer)

evacuated tube

operating room

- abdominal retaining retractor

balfour retractor

- used to expose a superficial wound

- self-retaining

weitlaner retractor

- retracts soft tissue

- has hinged arms

- self-retaining

- spine procedures

adson beckman retractor

- retracts skin and soft tissue

rake contractor

- short end (army)

- long end (navy)

- used in procedures with narrow incisions

army/navy retractor

- surgeon generally places it and the assistant maintains its exact placement

Richardson retractor

- used for deep retraction

- surgeon places it and the assistant maintains its exact placement

dever retractor

cervical scrape

endocervical brush

speculum

- can be bent to desired shape

- surgeon places it and the assistant maintains its exact placement

malleable retractor

- straight or curved

- used to clamp large blood vessels or grab tissue

kelly hemostatic clamp

- can be curved or straight

- used to clamp blood vessels or tissues

crile hemostatic clamp

- clamps small blood vessels

- smaller than Kelly

- can be used as a dissecting tool

curved mosquito hemostat

- used to grasp tissue, often tissue that is being removed

- can be straight or angled

Allis clamp

- used for grasping heavy tissue (fascia)

- teeth 1x2

kocher clamp

- used for grasping delicate tissue (bowel)

- no teeth

babcock clamp

- used to grasp skin layer during closure

- be careful not to damage skin edge by grasping too tightly with these (don't leave teeth marks)

- 1x2 teeth

adson forceps

- used for grasping tissue for closing would

- usually on deeper layers of tissues (hence long handle)

- 1x2 teeth

tissue forceps

- grasps fine tissue

- can be used to cauterize deep vessels

- assistant would touch the Bovie to the handle end and hold it on there until the surgeon tells them they cans stop

DeBakey forceps

curved mayo scissors

- suture scissors

straight mayo scissors

- delicate blades used for cutting or dissecting delicate tissue

- can be straight or curved

- NOT for cutting suture

metzenbaum scissors

size 10 scalpel blade

size 11 scalpel blade

size 15 scalpel blade

- used with reloadable blades

scalpel handle

disposable scalpel

corneal burr