Basic

Surgical Instruments
 Categories
Suctioning and
Accessory Aspirating
Grasping
and Holding

Clamping and
Occluding Probing Suturing
and Dilating and Stapling

Cutting and Dissecting Retracting

and Exposing Viewing
Name: Electrosurgical Pencil
Other Names: ESU, Bovie
Category: Accessory
Use(s): Coagulate blood vessels,
cut tissue
Name: Electrosurgical
Other Names: ESU, Bovie
Category: Accessory
Use(s): Coagulate blood vessels,
cut tissue
Name: Electrosurgical
Other Names: ESU, Bovie
Category: Accessory
Use(s): Coagulate blood vessels,
cut tissue
Name: Hallstead
Other Names: Ultrasonic Scalpel
Category: Accessory
Use(s): Grasp and divide tissue
 Name: Harmonic
Other Names: Mosquito forceps
Category: Clamping
Use(s): occluding small bleeders
grasping fine suture (with suture-boots)
Name: Kelly
Other Names: hemostat, snap, clamp Category: Clamping
Use(s): occluding bleeders
Name: Crile
Other Names: hemostat, clamp
Category: Clamping
Use(s): occluding bleeders
Name: Schnidt
Other Names: Pean, Mayo
Category: Clamping
Use(s): occluding larger bleeders
Name: Rochester-Pean
Other Names: Tonsil, Adson
Category: Clamping
Use(s): clamp small vessels deep in wound,
hold tonsil sponges,
‘tie on a passer’
Name: Schnidt
Other Names: right-angle forceps
Category: Clamping
Use(s): clamp, dissect, and occlude
Name:
Name:Straight
Mixter Mayo Scissors
Other Names: Suture Scissors
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Cutting Suture
Name: Curved Metzenbaum
Other Names: Heavy Tissue Scissors
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Cutting tissue
Name: Curved Mayo
Other Names: Metz, tissue scissors
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Cutting delicate or deep tissue
Name: Wire
Other Names: Bandage scissors
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Cutting dressings and drapes,
open uterus in C-Section
Name: Lister
Other Names: Wire cutters
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Cutting heavy wire
Name: No. 3 Long Knife
Other Names: #3 scalpel handle
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Holds blade #: 10, 11, 12, and 15
used on skin
Name: No. 3 Knife
Other Names: long knife, long handle
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Holds blade #: 10, 11, 12, and 15
used in deep wounds
Name: No. 10
Other Names: #7 scalpel handle
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Holds blade #: 10, 11, 12, and 15
used in confined space or deep wounds
Name: No. 7 Knife
Other Names: n/a
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Skin incisions
Name: No. 12
Other Names: n/a
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Puncturing skin
Name: No. 11
Other Names: n/a
Category: Cutting
Use(s): tonsillectomy
Name: No. 4 Knife
Other Names: n/a
Category: Cutting
Use(s): pediatric or plastic surgery
Name: No. 15
Other Names: #4 scalpel handle
Category: Cutting
Use(s): Holds blade #: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25
larger or heavier tissue
Name: Beaver
Other Names: n/a
Category: Cutting
Use(s): large or deep incisions
Name: No. 20
Other Names: Round Handle
Category: Cutting Use(s): precision cutting
Name:
Name:Adson
BeaverDressing Forceps
Category: Grasping
Use(s): grasping delicate tissue
Name: Brown-Adson Tissue
Other Names: Adson with teeth, rat tooth
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Align edges of wound/skin
Name: Adson Tissue
Other Names: Brown forceps
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping delicate tissue (plastic surgery)
Name: Plain Tissue
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping tissue and dressings

Regular

Adson
Name: Plain Dressing
Other Names: rat-tooth
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping moderate to heavy tissue
Name: Singley Tissue
Other Names: DeBakes
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping tissue
Name: DeBakey Tissue
Other Names: Tuttle thoracic tissue forceps
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping delicate tissue, dressings, and sponges
Name: Ferris-Smith Tissue
Other Names: Victors
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping heavy tissue, muscle, or bone
Name: Bonney Tissue
Other Names: Big uglys
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping heavy tissue, muscle, or bone
Name: Towel Clip
Other Names: Star forceps, Russians
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Grasping dense tissue,
bone graft
Name: Russian Tissue
Other Names: Backhaus towel clamp
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Holding towels,
grasping tough tissue or bone
Name:Nonpenetrating
Name: Towel Clip Towel Clip
Other Names: Atramatic towel clamp
Category: Grasping
Use(s): Attach Bovie and suction to drapes
Name: Babcock
Other Names: sponge stick
Category: Grasping
Use(s): making sponge-sticks,
grasping delicate tissue
Name: Foerster Sponge
Other Names: n/a
Category: Grasping
Use(s): grasping delicate structures
Name:
Name:Allis Forceps
Babcock
Other Names: n/a
Category: Grasping
Use(s): grasping slippery or dense tissue
Name: Kocher
Other Names: Ochsner, Koch
Category: Grasping
Use(s): grasping tough fibrous tissue
Name: Kocher
Other Names: Ochsner, Koch
Category: Grasping
Use(s): grasping tough fibrous tissue
Name: Parker
Other Names: U.S. Army
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting small incisions
Name: Army-Navy
Other Names: Park bench, double round
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting small or shallow wound
Name:
Name:Goelet
Parker Retractor
Other Names: Bolt retractor
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting small incisions
Name: Ribbon
Other Names: Cat paw retractor
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting skin edges
Name: Senn
Other Names: Malleable retractor
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting organs and intestines
Name: Weitlaner
Other Names: Joseph hook
Category: Retracting
Use(s): retracting skin edges
Name: Skin
Other Names: Weity
Category: Retracting (self-
retaining) Use(s): hold wound
edges open
Name: Weitlaner
Other Names: n/a
Category: Suction
Use(s): suctioning narrow spaces
Name:
Name:Poole
FrazierSuction
SuctionTip
Other Names: abdominal sucker
Category: Suction
Use(s): suctioning large amounts of fluid
Name: Crile-Wood Needle
Holder
Other Names: tonsil suction, oral suction
Category: Suction
Use(s): suctioning all types of wounds (very common)
Name: Yankhaur Suction

Category: Suturing and Stapling

Use(s): holding small to medium suture needles
Name: Ryder Needle
Holder
Other Names: heavy needle driver
Category: Suturing and Stapling
Use(s): holding large suture needles
Name: Mayo-Hegar Needle

Category: Suturing and Stapling

Use(s): holding small to medium suture needles
(often in vascular)
 Name: Ryder Needle
Holder Suturing and Stapling
Category:
Use(s): holding small suture needles

Note: No Serrations