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Surgical Instruments Uses And Techniques
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health-sciences
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1. Hand-held retractors that have a rake-like end and a smooth end used for muscle retraction during orthopedic surgery.
Senn retractors
Yankauer suction tip
uses of tissue forceps
Frazier suction tip
2. A basket shaped tip with multiple holes to allow directed suction and minimize trauma during thoracic surgery.
Balfour retractors
Yankauer suction tip
Mayo scissors
malleable retractors
3. A sharply point - triangular blade designed fro stabs incisions and precise - short cuts in delicate areas - such as the ureter or urethra.
#11 blade
Olson-Hegar needle holders
Poole suction tip
malleable retractors
4. Short - fine needle holders that are used to suture delicate tissues with the pencil grip.
Balfour retractors
Castroviejo needle holders
Bard Parker #3
Senn retractors
5. Dissection -sharp cutting
malleable retractors
uses of scissors
thenar-eminence grip for needle holders
palm grip for needle holders
6. Improve control and visibility during dissection and sharp cutting.
Metzenbaum scissors
rat tooth forceps
pencil grip for scalpels
curved scissors
7. Crushing clamps with longitudinal grooved that are designed for larger pedicles - such as the ovarian pedicles during a spay.
#10 blade
Bard Parker #4
Metzenbaum scissors
Carmalt forceps
8. A large convex blade designed for long linear incisions in skin and connective tissue.
#10 blade
malleable retractors
Bard Parker #4
Doyen clamps
9. A small - convex blade ideal for short - precise incisions - such as stab incisions into hollow viscera or biopsy.
Army-Navy retractors
Senn retractors
#15 blade
pencil grip for scalpels
10. Forceps with relatively smooth times that contain two rows of tiny transverse striations - used for grasping delicate vessels of organs.
pencil grip for scalpels
DeBakey forceps
uses of scissors
Metzenbaum scissors
11. Similar to palming - but the third finger is placed through one of the ring handles.
thenar-eminence grip for needle holders
Metzenbaum scissors
Yankauer suction tip
needle holders
12. Allows for increased precision in suturing - but slows the manipulation of the instrument.
thumb-third finger grip (tripod)
Frazier suction tip
malleable retractors
Army-Navy retractors
13. Self-retaining abdominal retractors typically used during exploratory celiotomy.
curved scissors
Army-Navy retractors
Balfour retractors
Metzenbaum scissors
14. Used to increase visibility and exposure during surgery.
Balfour retractors
Army-Navy retractors
retractor
Use of suction tips
15. Allows for rapid manipulation of the needle holder without removing fingers - increasing speed.
uses of tissue forceps
Mayo scissors
palm grip for needle holders
#11 blade
16. Hinged - sharp-tipped instruments that are commonly used to retract muscle and skin during approaches to the spine or long bones.
uses of tissue forceps
Gelpi perineal retractors
Senn retractors
Doyen clamps
17. A powerful grip typically only used in necropsy.
Use of suction tips
palm grip for scalpels
Mayo scissors
malleable retractors
18. Similar to the Mayo-Hegar needle holders but include a scissor mechanism just distal to the box lock.
Bard Parker #4
palm grip for scalpels
Metzenbaum scissors
Olson-Hegar needle holders
19. The removal of blood and other fluids - increasing visibility and decreasing the risk of infection.
rat tooth forceps
Use of suction tips
Kelly forceps
#11 blade
20. Forceps with multiple small teeth that allow grip without tissue trauma - commonly used in small animal surgery.
DeBakey forceps
Brown-Adson forceps
#15 blade
needle holders
21. Non-crushing clamps with longitudinal grooves used to occlude the intestines during surgery.
Brown-Adson forceps
curved scissors
Doyen clamps
thenar-eminence grip for needle holders
22. A concave - sickle-shaped blade most commonly used for onychectomies.
#12 blade
thenar-eminence grip for needle holders
#11 blade
pencil grip for scalpels
23. A simply angle metal tube that allows for very fine control of suction.
uses of scissors
Use of suction tips
Frazier suction tip
palm grip for needle holders
24. Small crushing clamps that have transverse grooves that are used to grasp small - isolated vessels.
Halstead mosquito forceps
Army-Navy retractors
fingertip grip for scalpels
uses of scissors
25. Forceps that have one large tooth apposing two large teeth at the tip - used for grasping skin.
Halstead mosquito forceps
Hohmann retractors
Castroviejo needle holders
rat tooth forceps
26. Size and length of the needle holders are selected based on the size of the needle used and the depth of the cavity - respectively.
needle holders
Bard Parker #3
uses of scissors
Finnochietto retractors
27. Manipulation of tissue with the non-dominant hand - held using the pencil grip.
Bard Parker #3
Gelpi perineal retractors
Bard Parker #4
uses of tissue forceps
28. This grip increases the angle of the blade - allowing more control for shorter - more precise - and deeper incisions.
#11 blade
pencil grip for scalpels
Gelpi perineal retractors
#10 blade
29. Medium sized needle holders most commonly used in small animal surgery.
needle holders
retractor
Mayo-Hegar needle holders
Poole suction tip
30. Self-retaining rib retractors used during thoracotomy.
Balfour retractors
Finnochietto retractors
Army-Navy retractors
Senn retractors
31. Hand-held retractors with blunt ends at right angles.
thenar-eminence grip for needle holders
fingertip grip for scalpels
uses of tissue forceps
Army-Navy retractors
32. Heavier scissor used for cutting dense connective tissue such as fascia.
fingertip grip for scalpels
Mayo scissors
Doyen clamps
Mayo-Hegar needle holders
33. Hand held retractors that have an hourglass shape - used to lever the tibia cranially during a stifle arthrotomy to allow evaluation of the menisci.
needle holders
Hohmann retractors
Metzenbaum scissors
retractor
34. A commonly used scalpel handle used in small animal surgery that is compatible with #10 - #11 - #12 - and #15
Mayo-Hegar needle holders
Bard Parker #3
curved scissors
Halstead mosquito forceps
35. Wide - flexible hand held retractors that may be bent at any angle - often used in abdominal surgery to retract friable organs.
uses of scissors
malleable retractors
curved scissors
fingertip grip for scalpels
36. Protected by a fenestrated cover - preventing inadvertant suction trauma to the viscera.
Castroviejo needle holders
Bard Parker #4
Poole suction tip
malleable retractors
37. Occlude blood vessels -occlude hollow organ lumens -blunt dissections
uses of surgical clamps
palm grip for scalpels
uses of tissue forceps
Olson-Hegar needle holders
38. Fine - dissecting scissor used only in delicate tissue.
Metzenbaum scissors
DeBakey forceps
#12 blade
Mayo-Hegar needle holders
39. Grip used most commonly for long incisions with a #10 blade due to increased contact with the cutting surface - stability - andaccuracy.
malleable retractors
fingertip grip for scalpels
Army-Navy retractors
Carmalt forceps
40. A longer scalpel handle used in large animal surgery compatible with #20 blades.
Army-Navy retractors
Bard Parker #4
pencil grip for scalpels
uses of surgical clamps
41. Crushing clamps that have transverse grooves that are used to grasp small - isolated vessels.
Mayo-Hegar needle holders
Bard Parker #4
thumb-third finger grip (tripod)
Kelly forceps