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Surgical Nursing
Surgical Instruments
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Operating Scissors | Intended to only cut inanimate objects (sutures, drapes...) |
| Mayo Scissors | Used when cutting large muscle masses, cartilage, and other non delicate tissues |
| Metzenbaum Scissors | Used for delicate surgical dissection |
| Suture Removal Scissors | Designed to remove external sutures from the skin |
| Hemostats | Aid in controlling hemostasis in the surgical field |
| Halstead Mosquito Hemostatic Forceps | Generally used to clamp small vessels ("skin bleeders") |
| Kelly Hemostatic Forceps | Used for medium-sized vessels or small tissue masses |
| Crile Hemostatic Forceps | Similar to the Kelly Hemostat, but the serrations extend the entire length of the jaw |
| Ferguson Angiotribe | Can be used on almost any size of vessels and on any tissue that will not need to be viable in the body |
| Rochester-Carmalt Hemostatic Forceps | Used to clamp large vessels or large tissue masses |
| Rochester-Pean Hemostatic Forceps | Used to clamp large muscle/tissue masses or large vessels |
| Needle Holders | Contain very short jaws that have a roughened platform in the tips to allow for a secure grip of the suture needle; the only surgical instruments designed with the specific intent of holding metal |
| Derf Needle Holder | Used with small animals, special species, and in extra ocular ophthalmic procedures |
| Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder | Has scissors built into the jaws that allow the sutures to be cut without having to reach for another instrument |
| Scalpel Blade Handles | Designed to hold scalpel blades for easier and safer use; held with a pencil grip, fingertip grip, or palmed grip |
| No. 10 Scalpel Blade | Most common blade used in small animal surgery, primarily for skin incisions |
| No. 11 Scalpel Blade | Usually used to create a "stab" incision |
| No. 12 Scalpel Blade | Often used to declaw a cat |
| Thumb Tissue Forceps | An instrument used to grasp and retract tissue on a short-term basis |
| DeBakey Thoracic Thumb Tissue Forceps | Only used on delicate tissue; often used in thoracic, vascular, or neurologic procedures |
| Russian Thumb Tissue Forceps | Usually reserved for use on skin/tissue that is being removed from the animal |
| Allis Tissue Forceps | Intended to grasp tissue in a fairly traumatic way; generally used on tough tissue or tissue that is being removed from the animal |
| Retractors | Used to deflect or retract tissue or other structures away from the surgical field (handheld or self-retaining) |
| Towel Clamps | Used to secure the sterile drapes to the patient during surgery or to secure the sterile drapes to one another |
| Backhaus Towel Clamps | Most common style; penetrating tips pierce the patient's skin to hold the drapes in place |
| Roeder Towel Clamps | Has balls not he tips to prevent the clamp from being placed too deeply into the tissue |
| Lorna (Edna) Towel Clamps | Ideal for securing second-layer drapes to the ground drapes |
| Snook Spay Hook | Used to find and exteriorize the uterine horns when performing an ovariohysterectomy |
| Needle Rack | A spring mounted on a metal base to store "eyed" free needles while autoclaving |
| Bone Holders | Designed to hold bone fragments together until permanent fixation can be achieved |
| Periosteal Elevators | Used to prepare the fractured bone for permanent fixation |
| Bone Rongeurs | Used to break up bits and pieces of bone for grafting purposes |
| Bone Curettes | Used to harvest bone graft material or to shape and scrape bony surfaces |
| Hand Chuck (Jacob's Chuck) | Designed to hold and drive intramedullary pins for repair of a fracture or for other orthopedic procedures requiring the use of pins |
| Intramedullary (IM) Pins | Used to stabilize certain types of fractures or soft tissue in specific orthopedic situations |
| Bone Plates | Designed to aid in the reduction of fractures and the repair of bone fragments |
| Taper-Point Needle | Has a sharp point that pierces and penetrates tissues without leaving small cuts because the cross section is rounded |
| Taper-Cut Needle | A combination of a round, tapered body and a reverse cutting point |
| Cutting-Edge Needle | The cutting edge on the inside of the curve cuts toward the edges of the wound, compromising the strength of the tissue; possibly the most traumatic |
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