Surgical Instruments and Cutting Tools

Vocabulary-style flashcards identifying various surgical cutting, grasping, clamping, and retracting instruments along with knife handles and blades from the lecture transcript.

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Knife/Scalpel Holder #3 & #4

Use for anatomical dissection.

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SUTURE / STITCH SCISSORS

Designed for easy removal of sutures.

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Mayo Straight Scissors

Used for cutting sutures.

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Mayo Curved Scissors

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Metzenbaum Straight Scissors

— Use for cutting delicate tissuе

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Metzenbaum Curve Scissors

Use for cutting delicate tissuе.

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Bandage Scissors

To size bandages & dressings; to cut through medical gauze; to cut bandages already in place.

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Metz

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Mayo

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FORCEPS WITHOUT TEETH: LONG AND RETISSUE GULAR

Non-toothed forceps used for fine handling of tissue and traction during dissection.

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Tissue Forceps with Teeth (Long and Regular)

Used for grasping moderate to heavy tissue and used during wound closure.

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Russian Tissue Forcep

Use to grasp dense tissue.

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DeBakey Tissue Forcep

To grasp tissue in vascular procedures.

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Adson Tissue Forcep

Hold and manipulate tissues (grasp).

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Tenaculum

Used to hold or pick up small pieces of tissue such as the ends of arteries.

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Babcock Forcep

Use to grasp delicate tissue.

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Allis Forcep

Use to hold or grasp heavy tissue.

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Kocher (Ochsner)

Used for grasping tough, fibrous, slippery tissues such as muscle and fascia.

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Foerster (Ovum)

Used for creating a sponge stick, for grasping tissues such as the lungs, or for removing uterine contents.

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Backhaus Towel Clamp

Use for grasping tissue, securing towels or drapes, and healing or reducing smal bones fracture.

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Randall Stone Forceps

Use for grasping and removing kidney stones, gallstones, and polyps.

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Curved Mosquito

Allow easier placement of ligatures around the forceps and also use in surgery for temporary occlusion of a vessel.

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Straight Mosquito

To hold delicate tissue and use in most surgical procedure.

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Kelly Clamp

Used to occlude bleeding before ligation (stops bleeding before closing off a blood vessel).

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Crile Forceps

Use for clamping blood vessels or tissue before cauterization or ligation.

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Mixter/Right-Angled Forceps

Use for clamping, dissection or grasping tissue.

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Pean

Use for clamping large tissue and vessels.

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Senn

Used for exposing superficial wound.

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Volkmann Retractor

Retractor commonly used in small bone and joint procedures.

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Army Navy Retractor

Use to retract incisions that are small or shallow or layers of skin.

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Deaver Retractor

Used for deep wound retraction.

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Malleable Retractor

Used for deep wound retraction.

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Richardson Retractor

Use for holding back multiple layers of deep tissue.

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Weitlaner

Self-retaining; sharp or dull; used for exposing superficial wound.

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Vein Retractor

Popular retractor used during neurosurgery or as rib spreaders.

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Skin Hooks

Used to retract the soft tissues.

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Langenbeck Retractor

Used for manual superficial retraction (skin/ subcutaneous tissue) purposes. May be used to split the muscle during gaining entry into the abdomen in the right iliac fossa during an appendicectomy.

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Green Goiter Retractor

Also known as goiter retractor or loop retractor; used for retracting soft tissue.

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Balfour with Self-Retaining Retractor

Surgical instruments used to hold an incision or wound open during surgical procedures; used in abdominal surgery to hold open the abdominal.

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Knife Handle No. 3

Knife handles used to hold various blades to create a scalpel.

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Knife Handle No. 7

Used when precision cutting is needed in a confined space or a deep wound.

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Knife Handle No. 4

Has a larger tip to accommodate the larger blades.

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No. 10 Blade

Used for making skin incisions.

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No. 11 Blade

Used for puncturing the skin or to initiate the opening of an artery.

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No. 12 Blade

Sometimes used during tonsillectomies, parotid surgeries, septoplasties, and cleft palate procedure.

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No. 15 Blade

Used for creating small precise incisions.

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No. 20 Blade

Used with the no. 4 handle to create a larger and/or deeper incision and on heavy tissues and bone.