Surgical Instruments

Rochester Pean Clamp

clamping heavy tissue, fully serrated jaw

Kelly Hemostatic Clamp

Clamping large blood vessels or tissue

Pean Clamp

clamps blood vessels or tissue (daddy of the family)

Crile Hemostatic Clamp

Clamps blood vessels or tissues (mommy of the family)

Halstead Mosquito Clamp

Clamps delicate blood vessels or tissue (baby of the family)

Stainless Steel is made of

Carbon and Chromium

What helps with prevent corrosion?

The shiny finish

How many parts are there on a clamp?

6

When an instrument has a black handle what does that signify

It's a supercut

Rochester Mixter

clamps the bowels or can be used in thoracic surgery and is used in obscure area (has longitudinal serrations)

Mixter

clamps tissue or grasps ligatures in a curve

Schnidt hemostat

clamps tissues or can be used to hold tonsil sponge

Best right angle colon clamp

Used to clamp colon tissue during intestinal surgery

Fehland right angle colon clamp

used to clamp large blood vessels or colon tissue, also known for its horizontal serrations on the jaws

Carter-Glassman resection clamp

Used to clamp the colon during resection, the jaws are a 45 degree angle

Doyen Intestinal Forceps (Mayo-Robson)

Used to clamp colon tissue, the serrations are angled

Allen Intestinal Forceps

Used to clamp colon tissue, the tip looks like an "A"

Bainbridge artery and intestinal forceps

Used to clamp colon tissue, has longitudinal serrations

#3 Scalpel Handle

Uses with a 10,11,12, or 15 blade

#4 Scalpel Handle

Holding large scalpel blades for cutting heavy tissue or bone. Use with a 20,21,22, or 23 blades

#7 Scalpel Handle

Holds longer and thinner blades to get into deeper and narrower areas. Use with 10,11,12, or 15 blades

#10 Blade

Used for skin incisions

#11 Blade

Used for small puncture incisions

#12 Blade

Curved, with cutting surface in the inside

#15 Blade

Used for cutting small vessels and tissues

#20 Blade

Larger version of the #10 blade often used in ortho surgery

#22 Blade

Bigger then #20 often used in cardiac or thoracic surgery

#23 Blade

Used for making long incisions

Blade Knife Handle

Used for holding knife blades (Beaver Blade Handle)

Straight Mayo Scissors

Used for cutting suture, dressings, and drains (Suture Scissors)

Curved Mayo Scissors

Used for cutting heavy tissue or muscle; dissecting heavy tissue (dissecting scissors)

Metzenbaum Scissors

Used for cutting or dissecting delicate tissue (Metz)

Operating Room Scissors

Used for cutting tissue, dressings, drains, or sutures

Lister Scissors

Used for cutting dressings and bandages and can also be used in c-sections (Bandage scissors)

Iris Scissors

Used for cutting and dissecting fine tissues or cutting fine suture

Universal Wire Cutting scissors

Cutting wire sutures, wire, or wire mesh (Wire cutter)

Backhaus Towel Clamp

Holds drapes, towels, and can grab bone fragments (Perforating Clamp)

Edna Towel Clamp

Holds drapes (Lorna)

Foerster Sponge Forcep

Holds ray-techs (Sponge Stick)

Adson Dressing Forcep

Used to hold skin together superficially

Adson Tissue Forcep

Grasping skin layer together during closing (Rat-Tooth)

Brown-Adson Forcep

Used to hold delicate tissue (Adson-Brown)

Brown Thumb Forcep

Grasping tissue (Brown Tissue Forceps)

Dressing Forceps

Grasping tissue or applying dressing (Smooth Forceps)

Tissue Forceps

Grasping Tissue (Rat-Tooth, Pick-ups)

Iris Forceps

Grasping delicate tissue

DeBakey Tissue Forceps

Grasping fine tissue (most common) (DeBakey Atraumatic Ventricular Forceps)

Bonney Tissue Forceps

Grasping heavy tissue or bone

Ferris Smith Tissue Forceps

Grasping heavy tissue or bone

Russian Forceps

Grasp debridement and used for closure

Allis

Grasping, lifting, and retracting organs or tissue that are being removed

Babcock

Used to hold round structures (Babcock intestinal forceps)

Kocher

Grasp heavy tissue (Oshner)

Lahey Goiter Forceps

Grasping, lifting, and retracting organs (Lahey thyroid tenaculum)

Bookwalter Retractor

Deep abdominal and pelvis retraction (Universal Ring Retractor System)

Balfour Retractor

Deep abdominal retraction during laparotomy (Balfour Abdominal Retractor) has 28-30 pieces

Omni Retractor

Exposing underlying structures during vascular procedures (Omni Tract System)

Weitlander

Exposing superficial wound

Cerebellar Retractor

Exposing wounds, used lots in neuro and ortho (Adson Retractor)

Beckmann Retractor

Exposing wounds (Adson Beckmann, Weitlander Beckmann)

Gelpi Perineal Retractor

Exposing wounds

Pratt Rectal Speculum

Retracting and viewing anus and rectum

Goelet retractor

retracts and exposes superficial wounds

Parker retractor

Retracts and exposes superficial wound

Richardson retractor

retracts and exposes deep wound

Richardson - eastman retractor

retracts and exposes superficial wounds

Guthrie double skin hook

retracts superficial wounds

Joesph skin hook

retracts skin (retracting skin)

U.S. Army retractor

Retracts superficial wounds (Army-Navy)

Senn retractor

exposes superficial words (miller-double ended)

Hasson retract

Exposing wound in laparoscopic incisions ("s" retractor)

Cushing Vein retractor

Retracts veins

Green retractor

Retracting soft tissue like the thyroid (Goiter retractor)

Dandy Nerve hook

retracts nerves

Volkmann retractor

Retracts and exposes superficial wounds (Rake) "small"

Murphy Retractor

Retracts and exposes superficial wounds (rake) "medium"

Ollier Retractor

Retracts heavy tissue

Deaver retractor

Used for retraction in abdominal cases

Harrington Retractor

Used in deep wounds to help protect the liver and gallbladder (sweetheart)

Malleable retractor

retracts deep wounds ( ribbon)

Sawyer rectal retractor

retracts the anal/rectal wall

Frazier Suction

Suctions smalls quantities of fluid (Nasal Suction)

Poole Suction

Suctions large quantities of fluid (Abdominal Suction)

Yankauer Suctions

Suctions fluid, may also be used to suction secretions from oropharynx (Tonsil Suction)

Crile-Wood needle holder

Holds small or medium sized suture needles

Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder

Holds heavy suture needles (Needle Driver)

Baumgartner Needle Holder

Holds heavy suture needle

Ryder Needle Holder

Holds small suture needles (French Eye needle holder)

DeBakey Cardiovascular Needle Holder

Holds fine suture needle for vascular or cardiac procedures

Webster Needle Holder

Holds fine suture needles; used mostly in ENT or plastic surgery

Sternal Wire Twister

Placing retention or wire sutures; twisting wire

Heaney Needle Holder

Holds sutures around curved structures

Magill Catheter

Grasps endotracheal tube during intubation also grasps and removes foreign bodies from the airway (Intubating Forceps)

Randall Forceps

Grasps stones or polyps (Kidney Stone Forceps)

Blake Gallstone Forceps

Removes gallstones from the gallbladder

Probe and Groove Director

Probes Fistula Ducts (Larry Probe and Grooved Director)

Bakes Common bile duct

Dilates the common bile ducts

Purse String

Applies suture (circumferentially) during surgery

EEA Stapler (End-to-End Anastomosis)

Staples either bowel to the stomach or bowel to bowel (Intraluminal Stapler)

Skin Stapler

Helps with skin closure