SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

Operating scissors - to cut paper or sutures with precision

Iris scissors - used for cutting delicate tiny tissues

Mayo scissors - dissecting & cutting dense tissues (large muscle or cartilage)

blunt tips, curved or straight blades

Metzenbaum scissors - dissecting & cutting more delicate tissues

very long shank, blunt or sharp tips, thinner and finer than mayos

Suture Removal scissors - cutting out sutures

Lister Bandage scissors - cutting under tape/bandage material without puncturing the skin of the pt

White's scissors - used for declaws

Rat-Tooth forceps - grasping skin and for holding dense tissues during surgery.

thinner, 2 lil teeths

Adson tissue forceps - grasping more delicate tissue

thicker, 2 lil teeth

Brown-Adson Tissue forceps - grasping delicate tissue

multiple set of teeth

Dressing forceps - handling sterile dressing material ex. picking up gauze squares

serrations but no teeth

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Allis Tissue forceps - grasping & retracting dense tissue (linea alba)

wide jaws, intermeshing teeth

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Babcock Intestinal forceps - grasping intestinal tissue

long jaws, no teeth

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Doyen Intestinal forceps - grasping bowel tissue

diagonal transverse serrations

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Ferguson Angiotribe forceps - grasping large bundles of tissue

thick jaws, transverse serrations

Sponge forceps - used to hold sponges/gauze during surgery

circular tip w hole in center

Hint: small

Halstead mosquito forceps - used for clamping capillaries

transverse serrations over entire jaw

small

Kelly forceps - used to clamp small to intermediate vessels

only halfway distal transverse serrations

Crile forceps - clamping small to intermediate vessels

transverse serrations over entire jaw

Rochester-Carmalt hemostats - crushing large vessels, grasping tissue bundles containing vessels

longitudinal serrations over entire jaw and transverse serrations at the tip

Rochester-Pean hemostats - crushing large vessels, grasping tissue bundles containing vessels

transverse serrations over entire jaw

Rochester-Ochsner hemostats - crushing large vessels, grasping tissue bundles containing vessels

transverse serrations over entire jaw + teeth

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Mithieu Needle Holders - for holding needles/suture & to aid in tying sutures

no finger loops or scissors

small for small needles

Mayo-Hegar Needle Holders - for holding needles/suture & to aid in tying sutures

long shank, criss- cross distal serrations

Olsen-Hegar needle holders - for holding needles/sutures & built-in scissors for cutting

Backhaus towel clamp - used to secure drapes and towels in place during surgery to maintain a sterile field.

Backhaus Roeder towel clamp - used to secure drapes and towels in place during surgery to maintain a sterile field

has “stops” on the sharp ends so they don’t go too deep

Jones towel clamp - used to secure drapes and towels in place during surgery to maintain a sterile field

Don’t need to know for BELL but LEC

Edna or Lorna towel clamp - used to attach long ancillary equipment to drapes ex. suction lines

Snook spay hook - inserted into spay incision to “fish out” uterine horns

Bunt Clip - used to gather and secure instruments in preparation for wrapping/or use

Scalpel handle #3 - used to hold 11-15 size blades

(small animal) ex. cats & dogs

Scalpel Blade #4 - used to hold 20 and above size blades

(large animal) ex. Farm animals

10 blade - basic incisions

11 blade - sever ligaments

12 blade - lance abscesses

15 blade - precise or small curved incisions

20, 21, 22 blade - general incisions in large animals