FFA Vet Science CDE Equipment

Ambubag

Used for artificial respiration.

Anesthetic machines

Used to deliver an inhaled anesthetic to keep the animal unconscious through surgery.

Autoclave

apparatus for sterilizing by steam under pressure

Autoclave tape indicator

Used to show that the instruments have been properly steralized by changing colors.

Backhaus towel clamps

Function: To secure the drapes to a patient's skin by means of a small puncture. Can also be used to grasp tough tissues and reduce small bone fractures

Balling gun

a metal device with a long handle that has a plunger at the base, used to hold medicines to administer to large animals

Bandaging material — Elasticon

Bandaging material — roll gauze

Bandaging material — vet wrap

Bands (castration or docking)

Cat bag

A restraint device designed to enclose a cat's body while providing access to treatment sites

Catch pole (dog snare)

Catheter — butterfly

Catheter — IV

Catheter — Tomcat urinary

Centrifuge

device to separate substances by spinning them at high speed

Chemical indicator strips

How would you know the conditions for sterilization have probably been met on a pack fresh out of the autoclave?

Cold sterile tray

Dehorner — Barnes

Dehorner — electric

Dental floats

Used to file equine teeth

Dental scaler

It is a dental instrument used for removal of plaque, bacteria, endotoxins and calculus.

Drench gun — small ruminant

Ear notcher

Used to notch the ears if sheep and swine

Elastrator

A device used in bloodless castration and in the docking of tails of livestock, accomplished by applying a strong rubber band.

Elizabethan collar

A circular plastic shield, resembling a lampshade, that encircles the neck and extends to the end of the muzzle. It prevents the animal from chewing at it's bandages

Emasculators

Removes testicles and cuts spermatic cord

Endoscope

an instrument used for visual examination of internal structures

Endotracheal tubes

Artificial Airway most commonly inserted in pts who have had general anesthetics or in emergency situations when mechanical ventilation is required

Fecal loop

a plastic loop with slotted ends used for quick and easy fecal samples

Fecalyzers

Feeding tube for small animals

Fetal extractor — calf

Forceps — Alligator

Forceps — Allis tissue

Forceps — Babcock tissue

Forceps — Brown-Adson thumb

Forceps — Crile

Forceps — Kelly

Forceps — Halstead mosquito

hemostatic

Forceps — Rat tooth thumb

J tube

Squeeze chute / Head gate

Hog snare

Restraint for swine, goes over the upper jaw, prevents them from backing up

Hoof knife

Can be used in equine but for very soft adjustment, used to trim off hoof wall

Hoof rasp

Function: To smooth the rough edges of the hoof wall after trimming

IV administration set

Laparoscope

instrument used for visual examination of the abdominal cavity

Laryngoscopes

Instruments used for examining the larynx or for assisting for intubation

Muzzle — basket

Muzzle — nylon

Needle holder — Mayo-Hegar

Needle holder — Olsen-Hegar

Obstetrical chain and handle

Ophthalmoscope

an instrument used to examine the interior of the eye

Otoscope

instrument used for visual examination of the ear

Pig tooth nippers

Radiology personal protective

equipment

Rumen magnet

put in reticulum "hardware stomach" collects metal

Scalpel blade

Scalpel handle

Scissors — Suture wire cutting

Scissors — Bandage

Scissors — Lister bandage

Scissors — Littauer suture removal

Scissors — Mayo dissecting

Scissors — Metzenbaum dissecting

Silver nitrate sticks

Function: To stop bleeding from a blood vessel

Small animal oxygen cage

Snook ovariohysterectomy hook

Speculum — large animal oral

Speculum — small animal oral

Staple remover

Stethoscope

Surgical drapes

Suture needle — cutting

Suture needle — taper

Syringe — automatic, multi-dose

Tattooing instruments — small

and large

Tonometer

instrument used to measure pressure

Tourniquet

Trocar and cannula

Twitch human

Twitch chain

Gravity feeder