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Instruments in Operating Room

The document describes various surgical instruments including forceps, scissors, retractors, and needle holders. It provides brief descriptions of the intended uses and key features of instruments like the Kelly straight/curve forceps, mosquito forceps, tissue forceps, thumb forceps, Mayo scissors, Metz curve scissors, Babcock forceps, Allis forceps, needle holders, towel clips, Debakey forceps, and Metzenbaum scissors. The instruments are used for tasks like grasping tissues, vessels, and organs, retracting incisions, cutting tissues, and holding needles during suturing.

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Instruments in Operating Room

The document describes various surgical instruments including forceps, scissors, retractors, and needle holders. It provides brief descriptions of the intended uses and key features of instruments like the Kelly straight/curve forceps, mosquito forceps, tissue forceps, thumb forceps, Mayo scissors, Metz curve scissors, Babcock forceps, Allis forceps, needle holders, towel clips, Debakey forceps, and Metzenbaum scissors. The instruments are used for tasks like grasping tissues, vessels, and organs, retracting incisions, cutting tissues, and holding needles during suturing.

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Kelly straight/ curve

Use to clamp larger tissues or vessels.

Mosquito straight/curve
A small, straight or curved forceps used in general surgery that has a locking grip with 35 teeth to allow rachet clamping at various pressures. Mosquitos are used to retract in small fields, hold delicate tissue, and compress bleeding vessels, among other things.

Tissue forcep - to grasp and handle soft tissue


an instrument with one or more fine teeth at the tip of each blade for controlling tissues during surgery, especially during suturing.

Thumb forcep
They looked like tweezers. They are tapered and have serrations or grooves at the tip. They can be short or long, straight or bayonet (angled), and delicate or heavy

Mayo scissor straight/curve General purpose and suture cutting scissors, normally not used on tissue. /Use to cut heavy tissues such as fascia, muscle, uterus, breast) - we often use this during OB-Gyne. Common to most surgical trays, used for cutting dense tissue where metz scissors are too delicate.

Metz curve

Long pean curve

Ovum forcep

Babcock Utilized to grasp delicate tissue such as intestine, fallopian tube, ovary, appendix, also available in long sizes

Iris

Allis forcep Used to grasp tissue and is available also in long sizes.

Needle holder To hold and guide suture needles se curely for suturing.This is a combination scissors and needle holder, whichspeeds up the suturing process.

Towel clip to attach towels, to handle sponges and other materials

Right angle mixter

Rochester pean straight

Nasal forcep

Blade holder #3/#4

Army navy retractor (also called right angle retractor/US Army retractor). Use to retract superficial or shallow incision.

Richardson retractor/with handle

Schroeber uterine tenaculum

Debakey forcep One of the most common surgical forceps, used for grasping soft tissue, blood vessels and bowel

Metzenbaum Scissors

Russian Forceps

Grasping. A multi purpose pick up in most instrument sets.

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