KNIFE/SCALPEL HOLDER SUTURE/STITCH

SCISSORS
- use for anatomical
dissection - easy removal of sutures

MAYO BANDAGE SCISSORS

- cutting sutures - to cut bandages,

dressings, and gauze

METZENBAUM FORCEPS W/O TEETH:

LONG AND RETISSUE
- cutting delicate tissues GULAR

- non toothed forceps used

for ne handling of tissue
and traction during
dissection

FORCEPS WITH TEETH: RUSSIAN TISSUE FORCEP

LONG AND REGUL
- grasp dense tissue
- grasping moderate to
heavy tissue and used
during wound closure

DEBAKEY TISSUE ADSON TISSUE FORCCEP

FORCEP
- hold and manipulate tissue
- grasp tissue in vascular
procedures
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- grasp delicate tissue - hold and grasp heavy

tissue

KOCHER (OCHSNER) FOERSTER (OVUM)

- grasping tough, brous, - creating a sponge stick,

slippery tissues such ass grasping tissues such as
muscle and fascia lungs, or removing uterine
contents

BACKHAUS TOWEL RANDALL STONE

CLAMP FORCEP

- grasping tissue, securing - grasping and removing

towels, or drapes and kidney stone, gallstone, and
holding or reducing small polyps
bones fracture

TENACULUM CURVED MOSQUITO

- hold or pick up small - easier placement of

pieces of tissue such as the ligatures around the forceps
end or arteries and also use in the surgery
for temporary occlusion of a
vessel

STRAIGHT MOSQUITO KELLY CLAMP

- hold delicate tissue and - occlude bleeding before

use in most surgical ligation
procedure
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- clamping blood vessels or
tissue before cauterization or
ligation
MIXTER/RIGHT ANGLED
FROCEP
- clamping, dissection or
grasping tissue

PEAN SENN

- clamping large tissue and - exposing super cial wound

vessels

VOLKMANN ARMY NAVY

- used in small bones and - retract incisions that are

joint procedures small or shallow or layers of
skin

DEAVER MALLEABLE

- deep wound retraction - deep wound retraction

RICHARDSON WEITLANER

- holding back multiple layers - self retaining; sharp and

of deep tissue dull; exposing super cial
wound
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- popular retractor used - retract soft tissue

during neurosurgery or as rib
spreaders

LANGENBECK GREEN GOITER

- manual super cial retraction - retracting soft tissue

purposes. Split muscle
during gaining entry into the
abdomen in the right iliac
loss during an
appendicectomy

BALFOUR WITH SELF NO. 3 KNIFE HANDLE

RETAINING RETRACTOR
- hold various blades to
- hold an incision or wound create a scalpel
open during surgical
procedures. Used in
abdominal surgery to hold

NO. 7 KNIFE HANDLE NO. 4 KNIFE HANDLE

- precision cutting is needed - larger top to accommodate

in a con ned space or a deep the larger blades
wound

NO. 10 BLADE NO. 11 BLADE

- making skin incisions - puncturing the skin or to

initiate the opening of an
artery
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- used during tonsillectomies, - creating small precise

parotid surgeries, incisions
septoplasties, and cleft palate
procedures

NO. 20 BLADE

- used with no. 4 handle to

create a larger and/or deeper
incision and on heavy tissues
and bone