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    Cutting instruments like scissors and knives are used to cut tissue and supplies. Clamping instruments like forceps and hemostats compress blood vessels to control bleeding. Grasping tools pick up and hold tissues, sponges, and needles. Retractors expose surgical sites by manually or self-retainingly pulling back organs and tissue. The document provides examples of common surgical instruments in each category and their purposes.

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    Cutting instruments like scissors and knives are used to cut tissue and supplies. Clamping instruments like forceps and hemostats compress blood vessels to control bleeding. Grasping tools pick up and hold tissues, sponges, and needles. Retractors expose surgical sites by manually or self-retainingly pulling back organs and tissue. The document provides examples of common surgical instruments in each category and their purposes.

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    Cutting instruments like scissors and knives are used to cut tissue and supplies. Clamping instruments like forceps and hemostats compress blood vessels to control bleeding. Grasping tools pick up and hold tissues, sponges, and needles. Retractors expose surgical sites by manually or self-retainingly pulling back organs and tissue. The document provides examples of common surgical instruments in each category and their purposes.

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    Cutting instruments like scissors and knives are used to cut tissue and supplies. Clamping instruments like forceps and hemostats compress blood vessels to control bleeding. Grasping tools pick up and hold tissues, sponges, and needles. Retractors expose surgical sites by manually or self-retainingly pulling back organs and tissue. The document provides examples of common surgical instruments in each category and their purposes.

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    BASIC SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS

    1.Cutting and Dissecting:


    Cutting and dissecting instruments are sharp and are used to cut body tissue or surgical supplies.

    Knife handles Scissors:

    Straight Mayo Scissors: Used to cut suture and supplies. (Suture scissors)

    Curved Mayo Scissors: Used to cut heavy tissue (fascia, muscle, uterus, breast)

    Metzenbaum Scissors: Used to cut delicate tissue

    2.Clamping and Occluding:


    Clamping and occluding instruments are used to compress blood vessels or hollow organs for hemostasis or to prevent spillage of contents.

    Hemostat: used to clamp blood vessels or tag sutures. Its jaws may be straight or curved. Other names: crile, snap or stat.

    Mosquito: Used to clamp small blood vessels. Its jaws may be straight or curved. (hemostat and mosquito)

    Kelly: Used to clamp larger vessels and tissue. Other name: Rochester Pean. (Kelly, Hemostat and mosquito)

    Burlisher: Used to clamp deep blood vessels. Burlishers have two closed finger rings. Burlishers with an open finger ring are called tonsil hemostats. Other names: Schnidt tonsil forcep, Adson forcep.

    Right angle: used to clamp hard-to-reach vessels and to place sutures behind or around a vessel. A right angle with a suture attached is called a "tie on a passer." Other name: Mixter.

    Hemoclip applier with hemoclips: applies metal clips onto blood vessels and ducts which will remain occluded.

    3. Grasping and Holding:


    Grasping and holding instruments are used to hold tissue, drapes or sponges.

    Pick ups, thumb forceps and tissue forceps: are available in various lengths, with or without teeth, and smooth or serrated jaws.

    Russian tissue forceps: used to grasp tissue.

    Adson pick ups are either smooth: used to grasp delicate tissue; or with teeth: used to grasp the skin. Other names: Dura forceps.

    Long smooth pick-ups are called dressing forceps. Short smooth pick-ups are used to grasp delicate tissue.

    DeBakey forceps are used to grasp delicate tissue, particularly in cardiovascular surgery.

    Thumb forceps: used to grasp tough tissue (fascia, breast).Forceps may either have many teeth or a single tooth. Single tooth forceps are also called "rat tooth forceps."

    Mayo-Hegar needle holders: used to hold needles when suturing. They may also be placed in the sewing category.

    Needle holder with suture

    Allis: used to grasp tissue. Available in short and long sizes. A "Judd-Allis" holds intestinal tissue; a "heavy allis" holds breast tissue.

    Babcock: used to grasp delicate tissue (intestine, fallopian tube, ovary). Available in short and long sizes.

    Kocher: used to grasp heavy tissue. May also be used as a clamp. The jaws may be straight or curved. Other name: Ochsner.

    Foerster sponge stick: used to grasp sponges. Other name: sponge forcep.

    Dissector: used to hold a peanut.

    Backhaus towel clip: used to hold towels and drapes in place. Other name: towel clip.

    4. Retracting and Exposing:


    Used to hold back or retract organs or tissue to gain exposure to the operative site. They are either

    "self-retaining" (stay open on their own) or "manual" (held by hand). When identifying retractors, look at the blade, not the handle.

    Deaver retractor (manual): used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions. Available in various widths.

    Richardson retractor (manual): used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions.

    Army-Navy retractor (manual): used to retract shallow or superficial incisions. Other names: USA, US Army.

    Goulet (manual): used to retract shallow or superficial incisions.

    Malleable or ribbon retractor (manual): used to retract deep wounds. May be bent to various shapes.

    Weitlaner retractor (self-retaining): used to retract shallow incisions.

    Gelpi retractor (self-retaining): used to retract shallow incisions.

    Balfour with bladder blade (self-retaining) is used to retract wound edges during deep abdominal procedures.

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