Instruments

Purpose Used to hold drapes in place

How it was used Used to secure drapes in place Used to hold tissues

Towel clip To hold tissues or organs

Allis Bone curette

To scrape bone

NOT USED

Blade holder

To hold blades

Used to cut skin and muscles

Needle holder

To hold needles

Used to hold needles

Army Navy Retractor

To retract shallow or superficial incisions

NOT USED

Round Nose

To clamp soft tissues

NOT USED

Metzenbaum

To dissect soft tissues

Used to cut tissues

Suture scissors

To cut suture material

Used to cut suture material

Crile retractor

Separates the edges of a surgical incision or wound, or can hold back underlying organs and tissues

NOT USED

Adson with teeth

To grasp superficial tissues

Used to grasp superficial tissues

Tissue forceps

To grasp or pick up soft tissue or bony tissue

Used to grasp or pick up soft tissues

Tumbler

Used as a container

Used as container for

Bulb syringe

Used for intraoperative irrigation

Used for intraoperative irrigation

Cautery Set

Cutting through tissue by means of heat Used for collection of bodily discharges

Kidney basin

Used through tissue by means of heat which reduces bleeding Used for collection of bodily discharges

Bone clamp

Grasp and hold bone securely

Bone File

Smoothen any sharp margin present

Rongeur

Used to remove large amounts of bone efficiently and quickly.cut through small segments of bone Clamp bleeding vessels or tissues

Used to break up larger pieces of bone and to remove pieces of cortical bone for exposure of underlying structures

Kelly curve

Mayo curve

Cutting thick or dense tissues, such as fascia, scar or tendons

Poole Suction tip

Used for removal of fluid or blood Secure temporary hemostasis in deep anatomy

Rankin

Kocher (Ochsner).

Used to grasp heave tissue and can be also used as a clamp. Utilized to grasp delicate tissue such as intestine, fallopian tube, ovary, appendix.

Babcock forcep

Thumb Forceps

To hold tissue in place when applying sutures.

Used to grasp soft tissues

to mitigate damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harmful possibilities such as infections