#3 knife handle
Category: cutting & dissecting
other names: #3 handle, scalpel handle
Use(s): knife handles are used to hold various blades to create scalpel. Scalpels are used to make skin incisions or whenever a fine precision cut is necessary.
Description: A #3 handle
#7 knife handle
Category: cutting and dissecting
Use(s): is used when precision cutting is needed in a confined space or a deep wound.
Description: a #7 knife handle holds blades 10, 11, 12, and 15.
CAUTION: never retrieve the scalpel from the surgeon after it is used; a
Backhaus towel clamp (penetrating)
Category: grasping and holding
Other names: Roeder towel clip, Jones.
Use(s): is used for holding towels in place when draping, when grasping tough tissue, and during reduction of small bone fractures.
Description: a ratcheted instrument with curved, shar
Crile forceps/clamps, curved or straight
Category: clamping and occluding
Other names: hemostat, snap, clamp, Kelly
Use(s): is used to occlude bleeders before cauterization or ligation.
Description: a curved or straight clamp w/horizontal serrations that run the complete length of the jaws.
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halstead mosquito forceps/clamps
Category: clamping and occluding
Other names: Mosquito, Hartman
Use(s): is used to occlude bleeders in small or superficial wounds before cauterization or ligation. Used often for delicate or small confined procedures. Some examples are plastics, pediatri
Allis intestinal forceps
Category: grasping and holding
Use(s): is used for lifting, holding, and retracting slippery dense tissue that is being removed. Commonly used for tonsils; for vaginal, breast, and thyroid tisse; or for grasping bowel during resection.
Description: curved
Babcock intestinal forcep
Category: grasping and holding
Use(s): is used for grasping and encircling delicate structures such as ureters, fallopian tubes, bowel, ovaries, and appendix.
Description: an atraumatic forceps w/a flared, rounded, hollow end w/smooth, flattened tips.
Schnidt tonsil forceps/clamps
Category: clamping and occluding
Other Names: Adson, Schnidt
Use(s): is used for clamping small vessels in a deep wound or holding tonsil sponges.
Description: the jaws may be curved or straight; they have horizontal serrations running half of their lengt
Foerster sponge forcep
Category: grasping and holding
Other Names: Fletcher, sponge stick, ring forceps
Use(s): is used to create a sponge stick, for grasping tissues such as the lungs, or for removing uterine contents.
Description: can be curved or straight and has two round t
Mayo-Hegar needle holder
Category: suturing and stapling
Use(s): is used for holding heavy needles when suturing.
Description: has a broader jaw that is rounded at the tip w/crisscross pattern on the inner jaw.
DeBakey tissue forceps
Category: grasping and holding
Other Names: DeBakey's, DeBakes
Use(s): grasps numerous types of tissue; commonly used in cardiac and vascular surgery
Description: an atraumatic tissue forceps w/an elongated, narrowed blunt tip. A set of parallel fine serr
Russian tissue forceps
Category: grasping and holding
Other Names: Star, Russian star
Use(s): grasps dense tisses and used during wound closer.
Description: rounded tips w/starburst pattern serrations.
plain Adson tissue forceps
Category: grasping and holding
Other Names: Adson dressing forceps
Use(s): grasps delicate tissue
Description: fine tips w/horizontal serrations
Instrument Insight: all of the Adson tissue forceps are the same size and shape. They are differentiated by th
toothed Adson tissue forceps
Category: grasping and holding
Other Names: Adson w/teeth
Use(s): aligns the edges of the wound during stapling of the skin; grasps superficial tissues so that Steri-Strips can be placed.
Description: the fine tips have two small teeth on one side and one
straight Mayo scissors
Category: cutting and dissecting
Other Names: suture scissors
Use(s): are used to cut suture
Description: heavy scissors w/straight blades
Instrument Insight: when cutting suture, use the tips of the scissors. Slightly rotate the scissors to visualize the
curved Mayo scissors
Category: cutting and dissecting
Other Names: heavy tissue scissors
Use(s): dissect or undermine heany fibrous tissues
Description: heavy scissors w/curved blades and blunt or sharp tips.
Instrument Insight: tissue scissors are intended to cut tissue only
curved Metzenbaum scissors
Category: cutting and dissecting
Other Names: Metz, tissue scissors
Use(s): dissect and undermine delicate tissue
Description: a longer, thinner scissors w/curved or straightblades that can have blunt or sharp tips
Instrument Insight: tissue scissors are
Yankauer suction tip
Category: suctioning and aspirating
Other Names: tonsil suction tip, oral
Use(s): is used for suctioning in all types of wounds. Allows effective suction w/out aspiration damage to the surrounding tissue.
Description: a hollow plastic tube w/a grip handle
Poole suction tip
Category: suctioning and aspirating
Other Names: abdominal sucker
Use(s): suctioning large amounts of blood and/or fluids from a body cavity. The inner cannula of this suction tip can be used to suction down the shaft of the femur during a total hip repla
Weitlaner retractor
Category: retracting and exposing
Use(s): holds wound edges open
Description: self-retaining finger-ringed instrument w/a ratchet/release device on the shanks, which holds them open in the wound. the tip has three outward-curved prongs on one side and fou
gelpi retractor
richardson-eastman retractor
richardson retractor
ribbon retractor
army-navy retractor
deaver retractor
Harrington sweetheart retractor
Balfour w/bladder blade & wing nut