instruments

Mayo dissecting scissors

• Cutting large muscle masses, cartilage, and non delicate tissues

•  Straight or curved 

•  Can look similar to Metzenbaum but is more heavy duty so shaft is much thicker

Metzenbaum dissecting scissors 

• Cutting delicate surgical dissection

•  Thin delicate blades

•  Long thin shaft

•  Straight or curved

Iris scissors

• Always very tiny

•  Used for eye procedures

Suture removal scissors

• Blade with hook shape to help remove suture

Lister bandage scissors

• Used for cutting bandages

•  Angled blade helps get in/under the bandage

Operating scissors

• Only cut inanimate objects

•  Sharp/Sharp, Blunt/Blunt, or Sharp/Blunt

Halstead mosquito hemostatic forceps

• Used to clamp small vessels

• Small jaws 

• Fine horizontal serrations extending the entire length of jaw

• Straight or curved

Kelly hemostatic forceps

• Larger than mosquito, horizontal serrations are wider and only extend half way down the jaw 

  • Kelly’s don’t go all the way 

• Clamp medium sized vessels and small tissue masses 

• Straight or curved

Crile hemostatic forceps

• Horizontal serrations that extend the entire length of jaw 

• Exactly like the mosquito but larger 

• Straight or curved

Ferguson angiotribe hemostatic forceps

• Extremely strong forceps, Very traumatic, crushing jaw 

• Crushing jaw that has one raised jaw and one recessed jaw (they fit into one another)

• Clamp vessels and tissues that will not need to be viable in the body

• Curved or straight

Rochester-Carmalt hemostatic forceps

• Horizontal and vertical serrations near tip (tip looks like checkerboard)

• Large instrument, jaw approx. 3.5 inches total

• Used for large vessel and large tissue masses

• Straight or curved

Rochester-Pean hemostatic forceps

• Horizontal serrations down entire length of jaw

• Just like Crile but larger/longer jaw 

• Used for large muscle/tissue masses or large vessels 

• Curved or straight

Rochester-Ochsner hemostatic forceps

• tip has a 1x2 teeth configuration (one on top, two on bottom)

• Aggressively grasp medium to large tissue

• Occlude heavy, dense vessels

• Curved or straight

Allis tissue forceps

• Neither hemostat nor a thumb tissue forceps

• Intended for grasping tissue, grasp tissues or mass

• Is fairly traumatic 

• Tip with teeth 3x4 or 4x5

Babcock tissue forceps

• Similar to the allis but considerably less traumatic 

• Smooth grasping surface and less stiff design 

Doyen intestinal tissue forceps

• Flexible, atraumatic jaws allow them to safely clamp viable portions of bowel and other delicate tissues

• Straight or curved

Adson dressing thumb tissue forceps

• No teeth 

• Flat atraumatic serration 

• Aid in placing and removing dressing on wounds

Adson-Brown thumb tissue forceps

• Two parallel rows of nine shallow teeth on both tips 

• Found in most general instrument packs

Adson 1×2 thumb tissue forceps

• One tooth on one tip and two teeth on the other 

• Can be traumatic 

• Used to firmly grasp tissue

DeBakey thoracic thumb tissue forceps

• Atraumatic, used on delicate tissue

  • thoracic, vascular or neurologic procedures 

• No teeth, instead has a ridge or groove

Russian thumb tissue forceps

• very traumatic, bulky tip

• Used on skin tissue being removed from the animal

Iris thumb tissue forceps

• Very tiny

• Used for delicate ophthalmic procedures