Operating Room Instruments

Flashcards about Operating Room Instruments, Sutures, and Principles of Aseptic Technique

__ is the first knife used to cut tough tissues.

Handle #4

__ is the second knife used to cut delicate tissues, and is used for minor surgeries.

Handle #3

__ are used to cut tough tissues and suture.

Mayo Scissors

__ are used for cutting suture.

Straight Mayo Scissors

__ are used for cutting heavy tissue (e.g., fascia).

Curved Mayo Scissors

__ are used to cut delicate tissues.

Metzenbaum Scissors

__ are used for fine dissection and cutting fine suture.

Iris Scissors

__ are the longest hemostatic forceps; used for deep abdominal layers and cavities.

Kelly Forceps

__ are medium hemostatic forceps; used for shallow layers.

Crile Forceps

__ are the shortest hemostatic forceps; used for minor surgery, pediatrics, and superficial layers.

Mosquito Forceps

__ are used to reach around and ligate blood vessels.

Mixter Forceps

__ are used to grasp medium to heavy tissue or occlude heavy, dense vessels.

Ochsner Forceps

__ are used for handling dense tissue, such as in skin closures.

Adson Forceps (Toothed)

__ are used for fine surgical procedures to hold delicate or superficial tissues.

Adson Forceps (Toothless)

__ are used to hold or grasp heavy tissue like bones, tendons, uterus, and fascia.

Allis Forceps

used for grasping, holding or manipulating body tissue

Thumb Forcep

used in surgical procedures for grasping tissue

Tissue Forcep

Heavy forceps used for holding thick tissue (e.g., fascial closure)

Bonney forcep

used to retract the external canal skin anteriorly for better visualization of external canal and middle ear.

Mastoid Retractor

used to retract, expose or push tissue, muscles, organs or bones during surgery

Richardson Retractor

used to retract deep wounds and may be bent to various shapes.

Malleable Retractor

__ are used for grasping tissue, particularly during rectal operations.

Pennington Forceps

__ are used to grasp delicate tissue and hold tubular organs.

Babcock Forceps

__ are used to remove placental fragments inside the uterus.

Ovum Forceps

__ are used to hold drapes in place, to keep only the operating field exposed.

Towel Clips

__ is used in laparotomy procedures where the abdomen needs to be held open.

Balfour Abdominal Retractor

__ is used for holding back organs and tissues while accessing areas during lumbar spine procedures.

Gelpi Retractor

__ is used for shallow or superficial wounds, and to retract skin or bones.

Army Navy Retractor

__ is used to hold back the abdominal wall during abdominal or thoracic procedures.

Deaver Retractor

__ is used to gently retract tissue and give better visibility to the surgical field.

Murphy Rake Retractor

__ is used to retract fat tissue in minor surgery.

Senn Retractor

__ is used to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures.

Needle Holder

__ is used to close incisions after surgery.

Skin Stapler