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Surgical Instruments
Common instruments used in the medical office - image practice included
Question | Answer |
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Towel Forcep (Backhaus) | Grasps towels, dressing, drapes |
Needle Holder (Collier) | Grasp suture needle |
Thumb forcep (Adson) | Picks up delicate tissue |
Knife handle | Accepts scalpel blade |
Straight S/S scissors (Deaver) | Cut tissue and suture |
Thumb or dressing forcep | Picks up dressings or delicate tissue |
Scalpel Blades (identify # of blade eg. 11, 15 etc) | Cut tissue |
Bayonet Forcep (Cushing) | Close skin, apply or remove packing |
Curved S/B (Deaver) | Cut tissue and suture |
Bandage Scissor,(Lester) | Cut dressings, tape |
Towel Forcep (Jones) | Grasps towels, dressing, drapes |
Curved, B/B scissor (Sistrunk) | Cut tissue and suture |
Tissue thumb forcep | Grasps tissue for control during dissecting or suturing |
Bandage Scissors (Knowles) | Cut dressings, tape |
Suture Removal Scissors (Spencer) | Cut suture |
Needle Holder (Brown) | Grasps suture needle |
Stitch/Suture Removal Scissors ( Littauer) | Cut suture |
Hemostat (petit-point or mosquito)curved | Grasp tissue to hold, clamp, or pull |
Splinter Forceps | Remove splinters or other FB |
Sponge Forceps (Forrester) | Pick up land hold dressings |
Tissue or dressing forcep (Semken) | Pick up dressings |
Tissue Forceps(Judd-Allis) | Grasp tissue |
Kelly Hemostat | Serrations stop partway |
Crile Hemostat | Serrations extend all the way |
Used to dilate the cervix of the uterus | Uterine dilator - start small and gradually increase in size |
Curette | has sharp cutting edge to scrape away tissue |
Uterine sound | Used to probe the uterus to determine position and depth. Has rounded tip to avoid perforation. |
Biopsy punch | Used for skin lesion biopsy - comes in various sizes (mm) and may be disposable |
Iris operating scissors | Small, sharp-sharp for fine cutting of tissue |
Anoscope | Instrument to view the rectum and anus - has removable obturator to make insertion less uncomfortable |
Alligator forcep | Has small working part that operates from handle. |