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Surgery

The document provides a comprehensive list of surgical instruments categorized into cutting and dissecting, grasping and holding, hemostatic, retracting, suturing and stapling, and suctioning and aspiration instruments. Each instrument is described with its specific use in surgical procedures. This serves as a reference for understanding the tools utilized in surgery.

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Surgery

The document provides a comprehensive list of surgical instruments categorized into cutting and dissecting, grasping and holding, hemostatic, retracting, suturing and stapling, and suctioning and aspiration instruments. Each instrument is described with its specific use in surgical procedures. This serves as a reference for understanding the tools utilized in surgery.

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INSTRUMENTS

USED IN SURGERY
Cutting and Dissecting Instruments
1. Scalpel (Bard-Parker Handle with Blades No. 10, 11, 15)

• Used for making skin and tissue incisions.


2. Mayo Scissors
• Used for cutting thick tissues like fascia and muscles.

3. Metzenbaum Scissors
• Used for fine dissection of delicate tissues.
Grasping and Holding Instruments

1.Tissue Forceps (Adson, De Bakey, Toothed & Non-Toothed)


– Used for holding and manipulating tissues.
2. Allis Tissue Forceps
– Used for grasping soft tissues securely.
3. Babcock Forceps
– Used for handling delicate tissues like intestines and fallopian
tubes.

4. Kocher Forceps
– Used for grasping tough tissues with
a firm grip.
Hemostatic Instruments (Clamps)
1.Mosquito Hemostats (Artery Forceps)
– Used to clamp small blood vessels.

2. Kelly Forceps
– Used for occluding medium-sized blood vessels.
3. Crile Forceps
– Used for larger vessels before ligation.

4.Cheatle Forceps
– Used for handling sterilized instruments without contamination.
Retracting Instruments
1.Langenbeck Retractor
– Used for retraction of soft tissues.

2.Army-Navy Retractor
– Used for shallow wound exposure.
3.Balfour Retractor
– Used for abdominal surgeries to hold the incision open.

4.Doyen Retractor
– Used for deep tissue retraction.
Suturing and Stapling Instruments
1.Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder
– Used for holding needles during suturing.

2.Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder


– Combines a needle holder with scissors
for cutting sutures.

3.Skin Staplers
– Used for quick closure of surgical wounds.
Suctioning and Aspiration Instruments

1.Yankauer Suction – Used for removing fluids during surgery.

2.Poole Suction Cannula – Used for suctioning large amounts of fluids,


especially in abdominal surgeries.
Spencer Wells Forceps
– Used for clamping bleeding vessels.

Towel Clamps (Backhaus, Jones)


– Used to secure surgical drapes.

Doyen Intestinal Clamp


– Used for bowel occlusion during
gastrointestinal surgery.

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