Surgical Instruments

Allis clamp

Use- for Grasping. Often used for grasping soft tissue such as breast tissue or bowel tissue

Found in minor and major packs

Army Navy Retractor or US Retractor Use: Tissue or Bone Retraction.

Found in both major and minor orthopedic and general surgery trays .

Babcock

Use - GraspingFor grasping soft tissue or bowel.

Tissue Forceps (toothed)Use - Grasping

- Often used for grasping fascia during the closure of abdominal surgery or for closure and suturing of large orthopedic procedures such as total knee and total hip

replacement surgery.

Metzenbaum Scissors- Metz

Use - Cutting - The most common scissors use for cutting tissue.

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Curved Mayo ScissorsUse - Cutting

Common to most surgical trays, used for cutting dense tissue where metz scissors are too delicate.

Mayo straight Scissors or Suture Scissors

Use - Cutting- General purpose and suture cutting scissors, normally not used on tissue.

Debakey Forceps or Debakey'sUse - Grasping

- One of the most common surgical forceps, used for grasping soft tissue, blood vessels and bowel.

Castro-Viejo Needle Driver or Castro'sUse - Suturing

- Castro viejo needle drivers are most common to Vascular, Opthalmic, and delicate Cosmetic Surgery. The come in both locking and non-locking varieties depending on surgeon preference and are

used for very fine suture in the 5-0 and smaller range.

Mayo Bodywall RetractorUsed for Retraction

- For rectration in large abdominal surgeries.

Adson Bipolar Forceps

Alm retractor

brain forceps- used to help in fetal delivery by allowing

the doctor to adjust the position of the unborn child's head during delivery

Dressing forceps have blunt tips with grooves and were

originally designed to hold gauze. However, they can used to pick up almost anything and the longer ones are handy for hard to

reach places. For very finer work, see splinter & thumb forceps or watchmaker

forceps.

Richardson RetractorUse : used to retract deep abdominal or

chest incisions. Available in multiple sizes as well as single and double ended. This is one of the most

common general surgery retractors.

Balfour retractor

Used to hold open abdominal incisions during a laparotomy.

Weitlaner self-retaining

designed for use in the following surgical specialties: peripheral vascular surgery

in the carotid, subclavian, femoral, popliteal and tibial regions. Spinal surgery in the cervical and lumbar regions. Orthopedic surgery in shoulder and hip procedures. General surgery for inguinal hernia, appendectomy and many minor

procedures

Towel clamp

used to maintain surgical towels and drapes in the correct position during an operation

hemostats straight & curved

used in almost any surgical procedure, to control bleeding

Vein retractor

Curved crile

Curved Rochester-Pean Forceps

Needle holderUsed to hold a suturing needle for

closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures.

Tenaculum Used to grasp and hold tissues. Also

used to hold tissues steady for surgical procedures, to hold tissues out of the

way, or to grasp tissues for the purpose of manipulating them

Polyp forcep

Used to grasp. Used in D&C surgery

Uterine packaging forcep

Pratt dilatorsused to widen the opening of the

cervix. Used in surgeries on genitalia

DeaverUsed for Retracting

Available in multiple widths and common to many surgical trays for

general, orthopedic and GYN surgery.

Uterine curetteused to remove tissue or growths from a body cavity. This uterine curette is

inserted into the uterine cavity and the wall of the cavity is scraped.

Tenotomy scissorused for delicate surgery on

eyelids, lips, etc, where extreme control is

necessary. They are ideal for tissue dissection. They are available in different lengths and sizes, to suit

various surgical procedures.

Curved iris scissorare designed for eye

surgery and not for skin surgery and hence the name. Iris scissors are

used for remove necrotic tissue. These are very

sharp, pointed scissors, available with either curved or angular cutting blades.

Volkmann bone curettes

Used for bone scraping. Used during major and

minor bone surgery

Duval lung forceps

Baby Bennette Retractor

Blade/ skin bladeUsed to make incision

Gelpi Used to retract usually on a spine

surgery

Wylie External Carotid ClampUsed for clamping the external carotid.

Exclusive for carotid surgery

Kocher ClampUsed to control bleeding. It is straight haemostat with interlocking teeth on

the tip

Scapula RetractorUsed to retract shoulder girdle. Used

during spine surgery

Vaginal speculum weightedUsed to retract vaginal orifice during

vaginal surgery

Dural retractor

Hand Tray (Rubber Mat, 2- Army-Navy Retractors, 2- Vein Retractors, 1- Debakey Forcep, 1- Smooth Forcep, 1- Tissue Pick-Up Forcep, 2- Smooth Adson, 2- Adson w/ Teeth, 1- Brown-Adson, 1- Andrew Pynchon Suction, 1- Frazier #8

w/ Stylet, & the Strung Instruments)

Lap Chole Set-up on Mayo Stand (Trocars, Needle Holder, Suture, “FRED“, Kockers, Criles, Curved Long Metz, Thumb Forceps, Adson Forceps, Knife Blade, Local Anes., Marking Pen, 4x4

Vistec Sponges, Straight Mayo, Bovie w/ Lap “L” Hook Cautery, “S” Retractors, 30-degree Scope)

Back Table Set-up for Lap Chole (Minor Tray, Lap Tray, Lap Chole Tray, Linvatec

Light Cord, EL5ML Clip Applier)

Back Table Set-up for Lap Chole- continued (ACMI Surgiflex Suction and Irrigation, Suture, Sharps Counter, X-tra Local in Medicine Cups, Basin,

Patient Drape, Steri-Strips)

Back Table Back Table for Lap Chole (Minor Tray w/ Reusable Trocar Set from Lap Tray) Set-up for

Lap Chole- continued (ACMI

Minor Tray (Skin Hooks & Small Retractors, Scalple Handles, Forceps, 2- Clips, Long Stringer Set, 2- Medicine Cups, Pynchon Suction, 2- Vein Retractors, 2- Army Navy Retractors, 2- Goulet

Retractors, 3- Richardson Retractors various sizes)

Finished Laparotomy Tray

Stringer from Laparotomy Tray ((6- Criles, 6- Carmalts, 2- Allis, 2- Babcocks, 4- Vanderbilts, 2- Long Right Angles, 2- Long Allis, 2- Long Babcocks, 6" Metz, 9" Metz, 6" Curved Mayo, 9" Curved

Mayo, 2- 8" Needle Holder, Long Needle Holder, 2- 8" Kochers, 2- Potts Clamps, Satinsky Clamp, 2- Sponge Forcep) Poole Suction)