Introduction to Surgical Technology:Basic Instrumentation
By: Amber Mitchell
Stringer (for instrument rings)
Yankauer Suction-Removes Fluids
Poole Suction (abdominal cavity)
Groove Director (direct silver probe)
Perferating (backhaus) Non-Perferating(Pierce)
Balfor (retract wound edges and internal organs dur abdom)
Gelpi (heavy tissue like muscle)
Adson-Beckman (thyroid, gen, neuro, orthoped)
Weitlaner (shallow, neuro, ortho, gen)
Army-Navy (retract shallow incisions)
Volkman (Rake) (sharp, dull, 2-6 prong)(retract shallow
incision)
Lahey (delicate superficial structures)
Ragnell shallow tissue & skin
Senn (retract skin and shallow Tissue)
Mathiew (shallow tissue and skin?)
Cushing Vein (veins & small vessels)
Parker (retract shallow incision)
Deaver (DEEP cavity)
Harrington (sweetheart)(DEEP CAVITY)
Richardson-Eastman (shallow?)
Malleable (for tissue that requires a specific shape)
Richardson (retract tissue DURRING incision)
Mayo(bladder)(bladder retractor for C section)
Tissue forcepts(teeth, long)(gauze sponges, dressings & delicate tissue)
Bayonet (ENT, hard to reach areas)
Allis (TRAUMATIC, hold tissue & can cause tissue damage)
Adson (teeth) (delicate tissue & skin)
Ferris Smith (hogs) (heavy tissue)
Brown (heavy tissue, pediatry)
Bonney (heavy tissue)
Cushing (no teeth) (delicate tissue)
Russian (long) (organs, skin, and OB/GYN)
Heaney N.H. (heavy needles; gyne) heaney=gyne.
Lahey Tenaculum (thyroid)
Pennington (gyne & hemorrhoidectomy)
Babcock (gastrointestinal aka TUBULAR structures.. Fallopian)
Foerster (sponge stick) (nondelicate & fetal extraction)
Mayo (blunt heavy dissection) (straight for
suture)
Bandage. (for bandage dissection)(uterus &
umbilibal cord for C-Sections)
Metzenbaum (cutting & blunt dissection; delicate)
Potts-Smith (Vascular)
Suture? (cut suture)
#3 handle (10,11,12,15)
#4 handle (20) (4/20)
#7 handle (10,11,12,15)
Can you find 10,11,12,15,20?
Mosquito (straight)
Mixer (Right angle)