Instruments

#3 knife handle

use with #10, #11, #12, #15 blade

#7 knife handle

use with #10, #11, #12, #15 blade

backhaus towel clip

grasping suture; securing towels or drapes holding or reducing small bone fractures

crile clamp; snap; hemostat

clamping blood vessels or tissue

halstead mosquito clamp; mosquito; stat

clamping delicate blood vessels or tissue

allis tissue forcep

grasping tissue to be removed

Babcock

grasping delicate tissue (fallopian tube, bowel, was deferens)

Schnidt hemostat; tonsil snap; Sawtell; Adson tonsil

clamping tissue; holding tonsil sponge

Pean; Mayo-Pean

clamping tissue or vessels

Mixter; right angle; Gemini

clamping tissue or grasping a ligature around a curve (such as a pedicle or blood vessel)

foerster sponge forcep; sponge stick

grasping tissue or holding Raytec sponges

mayo-hegar needle; needle driver

holding heavy (large) suture needles

crile-wood needle driver; fine needle driver

holding small or medium sized suture needles

debakey tissue forcep

grasping fine tissue; commonly used in all types of surgery

ferris-smith tissue forcep

grasping heavy tissue or bone

russian tissue forcep

grasping tissue; aortic aneurysm plaque

adson dressing forcep

grasping tissue

adson tissue forcep; mouse tooth

grasping skin layer during wound closure

cushing tissue forcep

grasping fine tissue

brown-adson tissue forcep; Adson-Brown

grasping delicate teeth

straight mayo scissors; suture scissors

cutting sutures, dressings, drains

curved mayo scissors; dissecting scissors

cutting or dissecting heavy tissue or muscle

curved metzenbaum scissors; curved mets

cutting or dissecting delicate tissue

yankauer suction with tip

suctioning fluid or blood; may be used to suction smoke

poole suction with guard

suctioning large quantities of fluid/blood

weitlaner retractor

exposing superficial wound

gelpi retractor

superficial wound exposure

richardson-eastman retractor

exposing wound

richardson retractor; Richie

exposing wound

ribbon retractor; malleable

exposing wound

army-navy retractor

exposing superficial wound

roux retractor

exposing wound

goelet retractor

retracting superficial tissue

deaver retractor

deep retraction

harrington retractor; sweetheart; valentine

exposing deep wound

balfour retractor; abdominal self-retracting

deep abdominal retraction

probe and groove director

probing fistulas, ducts, etc.

straight mayo

you have just handed the surgeon a suture. which scissors will you have ready to hand to him/her to cut the suture with?

bookwalter

the surgeon is performing a colectomy. he/she has just entered the peritoneal cavity and now requests a large, self-retaining retractor, you would hand him/her a:

#4

You have a #20 knife blade on your field. what size knife handle do you need to insert the blade onto?

adson

the surgeon is getting ready to perform skin closure of an incision. in addition to a stapler, which oof the following forceps would generally be used?

poole

the surgeon is about to irrigate the abdomen with large amounts of normal saline. he/she asks for an abdominal suction. what is the other name for this instrument?

right angle

a mixter is another name for a:

halstead

mosquito is another name for a:

bookwalter

the surgeon is performing an inguinal herniorrhaphy. he/she has made the skin incision and dissected down a short way into the underlying tissue. the assistant asks for a retractor which of the following would not be appropriate:
a. army-navy
b. volkmann

babcock

which of the following instruments does not have sharp teeth?
a. lahey
b. kocher
c. backhaus
d. babcock

edna

the nonperforating clip used to hold suction and other cords to the drape is a/an:

sponge stick

a foerester is a:

sweetheart

a harrington retractor is also known as a: