Veterinary Surgical Instruments

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1. Adson-Brown Tissue Forceps 5. Apnea Monitor

Purpose: Grasp tissue Purpose: Measures respiration rate by changes in air
Distinguishing Trait: Intermeshing fine teeth: temperature or gas flow rate on expiration; measuring
device placed between endotracheal tube and rebreathing
tubes:

2. Adson Dressing Forceps

Purpose: Grasp sponge or gauze
Distinguishing Trait: Has soft, flat surface:

6. Army Navy Retractor

Purpose: Retract large muscle:

3. Adson Tissue Forceps

Purpose: Grasp tissue
Distinguishing Trait: Rat tooth:

4. Allis Tissue Forceps

Purpose: Retracting connective tissue or facia planes; used
to hold tissue and move away
Distinguishing Trait: Tooth tips:

7. Babcock Intestinal Forceps

Purpose: Less traumatic than Allis Tissue
Distinguishing Trait: Soft Tips:
8. Baby Crile Forceps (Homeostatic) 12. Bane Rongeur
Purpose: Clamp large blood vessels Purpose: Breaking pieces of bone
Distinguishing Trait: Teeth serration's go ALL THE WAY UP Distinguishing Trait: Cupped jaw tips:
the grasping end:

9. Backhaus Towel Clamp 13. Bard-Parker Scalpel #3

Purpose: Securing drapes to skin: Purpose: Incisions:

10. Bair Hugger:

14. Bard-Parker Scalpel #4

Purpose: Incisions:

11. Balfour Abdominal Retractor

Purpose: Abdominal retractors
Distinguishing Trait: Three pieces:

15. Barns Dehorner

Purpose: Dehorning:
16. Bone Mallet 20. Castroviejo Needle Holders
Purpose: Used to strike an osteotome or any other Purpose: Suturing
instrument that needs to be pounded during surgery: Distinguishing Trait: Ophthalmic Surgery; also used for
microvascular surgery:

17. Bone Rasp

Purpose: Used to smooth rough edges on bone: 21. Collin Tongue Seizing Forceps
Purpose: Holding the tongue, holding dressing material
Distinguishing Trait: Large circular grasping end:

18. Calculus Removing Forceps

Purpose: Removes calculus:

22. Covault Spay Hook

Purpose: Retrieving Uterus
Distinguishing Trait: Octagon handle, button tip, "hanger":

19. carmalt:
23. Crego Periosteal Elevator 27. Dental Floater
Purpose: Reflecting muscle from bone by elevating Purpose: Floating teeth
preiosteal attachments Distinguishing Trait: File:
Distinguishing Trait: Blunt sharp edges:

28. Dental Scaler

Purpose: Removing dental tarter
Distinguishing Trait: Double end sharp point:
24. crile:

29. Dental Tooth Extractor (Rongeur)

Purpose: Tooth extraction or tarter removal
Distinguishing Trait: Scissor like action:

25. Debakey (Thoracic) Thumb (Tissue) Forceps

Purpose: Atraumatic forceps used on delicate tissue; used
in thoracic, vascular, or neurologic procedures
Distinguishing Trait: Tips have no teeth, but rather a ridge
or groove design:

30. Doyen Tissue Forceps

Purpose: Stomach and intestine and annstamosis:
26. Dental Curette
Purpose: Removing subgingival plaque
Distinguishing Trait: Curved curette end piece:

31. Electrocardiogram (ECG)

Purpose: Measures heart rate and rhythm:
32. Emasculator 36. Finochietto Rib Retractor:
Purpose: Castration
Distinguishing Trait: 3 blade like instrument:

33. Esophageal Stethoscope

Purpose: Amplifies sound of heart beat and respiration;
able to manually listen by attaching tube to stethoscope or
audio monitor that magnifies sound (Audio Pulse Monitor -
- APM):
37. Foerster Sponge Forceps
Purpose: Holding gauze sponges:

34. Farabeuf Retractor

38. Frazier Ferguson Suction Tube
Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers:
Purpose: Joint, orthopedic, and neurological surgical
suction
Distinguishing Trait: Narrow suction tube:

35. Ferguson Angiotribe Forceps

Purpose: Large tissue crushing forceps:
39. Gelpi Retractor 42. halsted mosquito:
Purpose: Abdominal and Thoracic surgery
Distinguishing Trait: Sharp edges:

43. Halsted Mosquito Forceps (Homeostatic)

Purpose: Clamp blood vessels
Distinguishing Trait: Small 3 inches, narrow, curved or
straight sharp tip:
40. Gigli Saw Handle and Wire
Purpose: Cutting bone
Distinguishing Trait: Saw wire:

44. Heaney Retractor

Purpose: Large muscles retractor:

41. Gosset Retractor

Purpose: Abdominal Retractor
Distinguishing Trait: No center blade:

45. Hemoclip Forceps and Clips

Purpose: Vessel Legation; applies metal clips onto blood
vessels and ducts which will remain occluded
Distinguishing Trait: Special forcep tip:
46. Hibbs Osteotome 49. Hoof Knife
Purpose: Chisel to cut bone Purpose: Remove debris from hoof and cut ventral hoof
Distinguishing Trait: Chisel tip, curved: Distinguishing Trait: Knife like:

47. Hohman Retractor

Purpose: Joint or muscle retraction; for knee or stifle joint
Distinguishing Trait: Curved blade tip:

50. Hoof Pick

Purpose: Remove debris from hoof
Distinguishing Trait: Knife like:

48. Hoke Osteotome

Purpose: Chisel to cut bone
Distinguishing Trait: Chisel tip: 51. Hoof Tester
Purpose: Diagnose painful areas of hoof wall and foot
Distinguishing Trait: Curved flat heads:

52. Hudson (Ewald) Dressing Forceps

Purpose: Grasp sponge or gauze:
53. Iris Scissors 58. kelly:
Purpose: Cutting delicate tissue; used in opthalmic surgery
Distinguishing Trait: Small narrow cutting end:

54. Israel Retractor: 59. Kelly Forceps (Homeostatic)

Purpose: Clamp large blood vessels
Distinguishing Trait: Teeth only HALF DOWN the grasping
end:

55. IV Fluid Line Warmer:

60. Kelly Retractor

Purpose: Large muscle retracting:

56. Johns Hopkins Bulldog Clamp

Purpose: Temporary occlusion of large vessels:

57. Jones Towel Clamp

Purpose: Securing drapes to skin:
61. Kern Bone Holding Forceps 64. Lempert Ronguer
Purpose: Bone holding forceps Purpose: For Laminectomy:
Distinguishing Trait: Light ratchet:

65. Lister Bandage Scissors

Purpose: Bandage removal
Distinguishing Trait: Rounded blunted:
62. Knowles Bandage Scissors
Purpose: Removing bandages
Distinguishing Trait: Serrated:

63. Lambotte Osteotomes 66. Liston Bone Cutting Forceps

Purpose: Chisel to cut bone: Purpose: Cut through bone and to remove small pieces of
bone; used for tail docking:

67. Litauer Stitch Scissors

Purpose: Suture removal
Distinguishing Trait: Notched blade:
68. Littauer Jr. Stitch Scissors 73. Mayo-Hegar Needle Holders
Purpose: Suture Removal Purpose: Suturing
Distinguishing Trait: Notched blade: Distinguishing Trait: Needle holding only:

69. Lorna Towel Clamp

Purpose: Securing drapes to skin:

74. Metzenbaum Scissors

Purpose: Cutting Delicate Tissue
Distinguishing Traits: Very long and delicate:

70. Luer S-Shape Retractor

Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers
Distinguishing Trait: Round prongs:

75. Meyerding Retractor (finger-held):

71. Mathieu Retractor
Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers
Distinguishing Trait: Blunt griping prongs:

72. Mayo Dissecting Scissors

Purpose: Cutting thick tissue and light bone
Distinguishing Trait: Thick heavy end:

76. Meyerding Retractor (hand-held):

77. Mini-Hohman Retractor 81. Olsen-Hegar Needle Holders
Purpose: Joint or muscle retraction Purpose: Suturing
Distinguishing Trait: Curved blade tip: Distinguishing Trait: Needle holding and cutting suture
material:

78. Noyes Alligator Tissue Forceps

Purpose: Removing foreign body from eyes, ears, and 82. Parker Retractors
mouth Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers; mostly
Distinguishing Trait: Very long: for orthopedic:

83. Peridontal Probe

Purpose: Measures periodontal depth of gingival regression
Distinguishing Trait: Pointed measured probe:

79. ochner:

84. Poole Suction Tube

Purpose: Abdominal Suction
Distinguishing Trait: Holes on the end:

80. Ochsner Forceps (Homeostatic)

Purpose: Control homeostasis large tissue bundles
Distinguishing Trait: Teeth on end preventing slipping:
85. Pulse Oximeter 88. Resco Nail Cutters
Purpose: Noninvasive measurement of heart rate and Purpose: Trim or cut nails
oxygen saturation level; probe placed on non pigmented Distinguishing Trait: Guillotine action:
area:

89. Ribbon Retractor (aka Malleable)

Purpose: Abdominal and Thoracic surgery
Distinguishing Trait: Pliable and bendable:
86. Ragnell Retractor
Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers
Distinguishing Trait: Flat prongs:

87. Reduction Bone Holding Forceps:

90. Richards Bone Holding Forceps

Purpose: To hold bone framents together until permanent
fixation can be achieved
Distinguishing Trait: Strong gripping teeth:
91. Rochester Carmalt Forceps (Homeostatic) 94. Root Elevator
Purpose: Control homeostasis in large tissue bundles Purpose: Tooth extraction
Distinguishing Trait: Linear groves that go with the grasping Distinguishing Trait: Beveled Tip:
end; thick blade, shorter blade than Doyen, deep
longitudinal grooves:

92. Rochester Pean Forceps (Homeostatic)

Purpose: Occlude or clamp off larger vessels to control
bleeding
Distinguishing Trait: Large, fully serrated, can be straight or 95. Ruskin Bone Cutting Forceps
curved: Purpose: Bone Cutting
Distinguishing Trait: Strong blades:

93. Roeder Towel Clamp

Purpose: Securing drapes to skin
96. Ruskin Rongeurs
Distinguishing Trait: Has ball to prevent deep puncture:
Purpose: Used to break up bits and pieces of bone for
grafting purposes. Pieces of bone too small to reattach to
the animal are broken down into small pieces and packed
around the fracture lines to encourage new osteoblast
formation and promote healing. Can also be used to
remove pieces of unnecessary bone.
Distinguishing Trait: Cupped tips with sharp edges and
work with a squeezing action of the handles:
97. Russian Tissue Forceps 101.Sistrunk Scissors
Purpose: Traumatizing tissue Purpose: Dissecting through tissue, Cutting into joint
Distinguishing Trait: Round tooth cup; has concave circle capsule
with spikes: Distinguishing Trait: Short, blunt, strong cutting end:

98. Semken Dressing Forceps

Purpose: Grasping sponge or gauze
Distinguishing Trait: Jaws are smooth or striated:

102.Smith-Peterson Osteotomes
Purpose: Chisel to cut bone
Distinguishing Trait: Chisel tip:

99. Semken Tissue Forceps:

103.Snook Spay Hook

Purpose: Retrieving Uterus
Distinguishing Trait: Flat handle, curved tip, "blade":

100. Senn Retractor

Purpose: Retract skin and superficial muscle layers
Distinguishing Trait: Sharp prongs:
104.Spencer Stitch Scissors 107.Stille-Liston Bone Cutting Forceps
Purpose: Suture Removal Purpose: Cut through bone and to remove small pieces of
Distinguishing Trait: Notched Blade: bone:

108.Stille-Luer Bone Rongeurs

105.Spratt Bone Currettes
Purpose: Scraping tissue and collecting bone
Distinguishing Trait: Half Spoon:
Purpose: Used to break up bits and pieces of bone for
grafting purposes. Pieces of bone too small to reattach to
the animal are broken down into small pieces and packed
around the fracture lines to encourage new osteoblast
formation and promote healing. Can also be used to
remove pieces of unnecessary bone.
Distinguishing Trait: Cupped tips with sharp edges and
work with a squeezing action of the handles:

109. Tooth Polisher:

106.Standard Pattern Operating Scissors

Purpose: Cutting Skin and thick tissue:

110.Twitch
Purpose: Restraint horse
Distinguishing Trait: Chain:
111.Ultrasonic Scaler 114.Verbrugge Bone Holding Forceps
Purpose: Removes calculus: Purpose: To hold bone fragments together until permanent
fixation can be achieved:

112.US Army Osteotome

Purpose: Chisel to cut bone 115.Volkmann Bone Currettes
Distinguishing Trait: Chisel tip: Purpose: To collect bone graft material or to shape and
scrape bony surfaces
Distinguishing Trait: Cupped tip surrounded by sharp
edges:

113.Vaginal Speculum
Purpose: Aid in the placement of a urinary catheter:

116.Volkman Retractors
Purpose: Muscle retractor:

117.Weitlaner Retractor
Purpose: Abdominal (self retaining):
118.Whites Nail Trimming Scissors
Purpose: Trim or cut nails
Distinguishing Trait: X-scissors:

119.Wire Cutting Stitch

Purpose: Wire suture removal
Distinguishing Trait: Small thick blade:

120.Yankauer Suction Tube

Purpose: Suction
Distinguishing Trait: Long end: