Ch.12 Orthopedic Instruments (part 1)

Name: Depth Gauge

Other Name: Screw depth gauge

Use: Used for confirmation of the depth of the drill hole in bone to determine the length of the screw.

Category: Accessory

Name: Ruler

Other Name: Measuring stick

Use: Used for measuring structure and distances.

Category: Accessory

Name: Mallet

Other Name: Hammer

Use: Used to impact and extract implants or exert force on osteotomes, chisels, gouges, tamps, and other specially designed instruments

Category: Accessory

Name: Bone Tamp

Other Name: Tamp

Use: Used to compact or wedge a structure into place (e.g., a bone wedge).

Category: Accessory

Name: Townley Caliper

Other Name: Caliper

Use: Used for measuring structures and distances. Commonly used for measuring the thickness of patella before cutting its undersurface during a total knee arthroplasty.

Category: Accessory

Name: Drill Guide

Other Name: Drill sleeve, drill bit guide

Use: Provides a more precise drill hole. Used to align the drill bit in the center of the hole in the plate, protects the soft tisue from damage, and prevents the drill from slipping and making a larger hole.

Category: Accessory

Name: Bone Cement Injector

Other Name: Cement gun

Use: Used for injecting polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) bone cement during total joint procedures.

Category: Accessory

Name: Bone Cement System

Other Name:

Use: Used for mixing the liquid (monomer) and powder (polymer) to produce bone cement, also known as polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).

Category: Accessory

Name: Pump tubing

Other Name:

Use: Attaches irrigation fluid bags to pump at one end, with the other end attached to the arthroscopic irrigation cannula.

Category: Accessory

Name: 4-mm Sheath with Blunt Obturator

Other Name:

Use: Creates a port into which the endoscope is introduced and exchanged through the sheath or cannula.

Category: Accessory

Name: 4-mm Sheath with Sharp Obturator

Other Name:

Use: Creates a port into which the endoscope is introduced and exchanged through the sheath or cannula.

Category: Accessory

Name: Ablation Wand

Other Name: Cool cut wand

Use: To clean up and smooth out meniscus and articular surfaces during an arthroscopy.

Category: Accessory

Name:Kirschner Wires

Other Name: K wires, metacarpal pins

Use: A steel wire used for fixation of bone fractures. These are often used on small bones such as phalanges, wrist, and ankle, and are often placed percutaneously.

Category: Accessory

Name:Smooth Steinmann pins

Other Name: Smooth pins

Use: These pins can be used for fixation of bone fractures, bone reconstruction, and as a guide pin when placing implants and placing skeletal traction. Often used on larger bones.

Category: Accessory

Name:Threaded Steinmann pins

Other Name: Threaded pins

Use: These pins can be used for fixation of bone fractures, bone reconstruction, and as a guide pin when placing implants and placing skeletal traction. Often used on larger bones.

Category: Accessory

Name: Chuck and Key

Other Name: Drill chuck

Use: Most commonly used to hold rotating devices, such as the drill bit or a pin in a power tool. Some chucks can also hold irregularly shaped objects and those that lack radial symmetry. Often the jaws will be tightened or loosened with the help of a chuck key, which is a wrench-like device made to tighten or loosen the jaws.

Category: Accessory

Name: Universal Screwdriver kit

Other Name: Screwdriver kit

Use: Used during revision of total joint surgery in which screws were used, removal of bone plates, fracture fixation screws, or bone graft screws.

Category: Accessory

Name: Plate bending pliers

Other Name: Plate bender

UseUsed during open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) to bend the plate to conform to the contour of the bone in which it is being implanted

Category: Accessory

Name: Lead Hand

Other Name: Plate bender

Use: Often used during hand procedures to position the hand open for exposure

Category: Accessory

Name: Gigli Saw

Other Name:

Use: A type of hand saw used for cutting bone. A back and forth movement of the T handle slides the cable over the bone, creating a notch that continues through the bone. Often used for amputations and can be use to open the skull for craniotomies.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stryker System 6 power

Other Name:

Use: Used for cutting, reaming, or drilling large bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stryker Core System

Other Name: TPS system

Use: Used for cutting, drilling, or burring small bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Cordless Driver 4

Other Name: CD4 power system

Use: Used for cutting, drilling, or burring small bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Drill Bit Sit

Other Name: Drill box

Use: Drill bits are used to drill holes in bone, usually before the placement of a screw.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Littler Scissors

Other Name:

Use: Used for fine tissue dissection.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Utility Scissors

Other Name: Bandage Scissors

Use: Cut bandages, casting material, clothing, and other nonsterile items.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Bone File

Other Name: Rasp

Use: Used for smoothing rough edges or surfaces of large bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Miller Rasp

Other Name: Small Rasp

Use: Used for smoothing rough edges or surfaces of large bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Putti Bone Rasp

Other Name: Putti-Platte rasp, rat tail

Use: Used for smoothing rough edges or surfaces of large bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Key Elevator

Other Name:

Use: Dissects or separates hard tissue

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Crego Elevator

Other Name:

Use: Dissects or separates tissue; retracts tissue.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Freer Elevator

Other Name:

Use:Lifts the periosteum from bone or retracts in confined spaces.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Liston Bone Cutting Forceps

Other Name: Large bone cutters

Use:Used for cutting large bones.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stille Bone Gouge

Other Name: Large bone cutters

Use:Used to cut or scoop out a channel of bone..

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stille Bone Chisel

Other Name:

Use:Used to cut or shape bone. The chisel is often used when harvesting a bone graft.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stille Bone Osteotome

Other Name:

Use:Used to cut or shape bone. The osteotome is often used when harvesting a bone graft.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name:Lambotte Osteotome

Other Name:

Use: Used to cut or shape bone. An osteotome is often used when harvesting a bone graft

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name:Cannulated Pin Cutter

Other Name: Pin Cutter

Use: Used for cutting wire or small pins, such as Kirschner wires (K wires) or Steinmann pins.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name:Diamond Pin Cutter

Other Name: Pin Cutter

Use: Used for cutting wire or small pins, such as Kirschner wires (K wires) or Steinmann pins.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name:Large Pin Cutter

Other Name: Bolt cutter, rod cutter

Use: Used for cutting heavy pins and rods

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Bruns Oval Bone Curettes

Other Name: Curettes

Use: Used for scooping out tissue or material from small, tight areas.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Stille-Luer Rongeur

Other Name: Straight rongeur, large-mouthed rongeur

Use: Used to grasp, bite, and detach large amounts of tissue

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Name: Zaufel-Jansen Rongeur

Other Name: Small-mouthed rongeur

Use: Used for removing pieces of bone and the soft tissue surrounding the bone.

Category: Cutting and Dissecting