Vet Science

Animal Clippers

• Used to trim nails.

Autoclave

• a strong, heated container used for chemical reactions and other processes using high pressures and temperatures; used for sterilization.

Autoclave Tape IndicatorTo indicate that when the tape turns brown the pack is sterile.

Backhaus Towel Clamps

• a clamp used for fixing drapes to the skin of anesthetized patients. A scissor action with ratchet fixation at the finger loops and sharp, incurving, needle-like blades.

Balling Gun

• an instrument used to force balls of drugs down the throats of animals

Bands (castration or docking)

Bandaging (Roll Gauze)

• Used for wounds, or dressing burns or cuts to any animal.

Vet Wrap

• Used to show if there is a catheter in or out. • Used to cover up open tape to where the

animal can’t get to it.

Betadine

• device with a flexible bulb that replaces the plunger for instillation or aspiration. Bulb syringes can be used to irrigate an external orifice, such as the auditory canal.

Bulb Syringe

• An trademark for an over-the-counter preparation of povidone iodine.

Catch Pole (dog snare)

• Used to have control of the animal.

Catheter IV

• a flexible tube inserted through a narrow opening into a body cavity.

Catheter Butterfly

• a tubular, flexible surgical instrument that is inserted into a cavity of the body to withdraw or introduce fluid.

Catheter Urine

• a flexible tube inserted particularly through the bladder, for removing fluid.

Centrifuge

• device for separating components of different densities contained in liquid by spinning them at high speeds. Centrifugal force causes the heavier components to move to one part of the container, leaving the lighter substances in another.

Chain Switch

Clipper Blades

Surgical Drapes

Cold Sterile Tray

Cover Slips

Dehorner

• instrument for removing the horns.

Dental Equipment(float, retractor, or scaler)

• FLOAT: an instrument used in the filing or rasping of a horse's premolar and molar teeth. Handles are 24 to 28 in (60 to 70 cm) with a broad head into which an interchangeable rasp can be screwed. Some rasps work when pulled toward the operator, others work only when pushed away. Short-handled floats with the heads set at an angle are used for the front upper molars.

• RETRACTOR: A surgical instrument used to hold back organs or the edges of an incision.

• SCALER: a dental instrument for removal of calculus from teeth.

Needle Holder

• a surgical forceps used to hold and pass a suturing needle through tissue

Microscope slides

• a glass plate on which objects are placed for microscopic examination.

Muzzle

• an appliance placed over the mouth of an animal, usually a dog, to prevent it biting. The simplest form is a clove-hitch made of bandage and wound around the two jaws.

Nail Clippers

• A nail clipper (also called a nail trimmer or nail cutter) is a hand tool used to trim fingernails, toenails and hangnails.

Obstetrical Chain and Handle

Ophthalmoscope

• Direct ophthalmoscopy one that produces an upright, or unreversed, image of approximately 15 times magnification.

• Indirect ophthalmoscopy one that produces an inverted, or reversed, direct image of 2 to 5 times magnification.

Otoscope

• Otoscopes are also frequently used for examining patients' noses (avoiding the need for a separate nasal speculum) and (with the speculum removed) upper throats.

Paste Gun

Pig Tooth Nippers

• A tool, such as pliers or pincers, used for squeezing or nipping.

Pill Counting Tray

• Used to count and separate pills from each other.

Rumen Magnet

Scalpel Blade

• with its curved cutting edge is one of the more traditional bladeshapes and is used generally for making small incisions in skin and muscle.

Scalpel Handle

• is a protective safety handle to be used in operating rooms. This surgical blade has a safety handle to help prevent injuries.

Scissors

• Bandage, Lister bandage, littauer suture removal, mayo dissecting, metzenbaum dissecting

Disposable Hypodermic Needles

• type of syringe consisting of a hollow cylinder, usually of glass or plastic, a tightly fitting piston, and a hollow needle (hypodermic needle), used for withdrawing blood samples, injecting medicine.

Drench Gun

Ear Notcher

• Cuts cleanly for quick, efficient ear markings.

Ear Tags

• n ear (preauricular) tag is a small skin tag or pit in front of the outside part of the ear.

Ear Tag Pliers

Elastrator

• is a bloodless method of male castration and docking commonly used for livestock. Elastration is simply banding the body part

Elizabethan Collar

• E-Collar, pet lamp-shade, pet cone, or cone of shame is a protective medical device worn by an animal, usually a cat or dog. Shaped like a truncated cone, its purpose is to prevent the animal from biting or licking at its body or scratching at its head or neck while wounds or injuries heal.

Emasculators

• a tool used in the castration of livestock.

Endotracheal Tubes

• a catheter that is inserted into the trachea for the primary purpose of establishing and maintaining a patent airway and to ensure the adequate exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Fecal Loop

• Used to collect stool samples.

Fecalyzers

• are diagnostic tests usually performed in-house in various veterinary clinics as a method of diagnosing parasitism in animals

Feeding Tube (small animals)

• is a medical device used to provide nutrition to patients who cannot obtain nutrition by mouth, are unable to swallow safely, or need nutritional supplementation. The state of being fed by a feeding tube is called gavage, enteral feeding ortube feeding.

Fetal Extractor

• front concave surface adapted to be adhered to part of the head of a fetus by means of an adhesive previously placed on the head of the fetus or on said surface

Adson Tissue (forceps)

• standard thumb-operated, wishbone type forceps for grasping tissue, with a rat-tooth tip with a single point on one side fitting in between two teeth on the other.

Alligator(forceps)

• strong toothed forceps having a double clamp.

Allis Tissue(forceps)

• forceps with inward-curving toothed blades and a ratcheted handle. Designed for grasping fascia and tendons.

Babcock tissue(forceps)

• a forceps whose blades are offset from the axis of the handle.

Brown-Adson Thumb(forceps)

• a thumb forceps similar to the Adson forceps, having fine teeth at the tip, used for grasping delicate tissue

Halstead Mosquito Hemostatic(forceps)

• A small, straight or curved hemostatic forceps used to hold delicate tissue or compress a bleeding vessel.

Kelly(forceps)

• type of hemostat usually made of stainless steel.

Gag Mouth Speculum

• Used to hold equine animals mouth open.

Halter and Lead Rope

• Straps that buckle around the horse or pony’s head to facilitate tying and leading. A horse that is wearing a halter is said to be 'haltered'.

Hoof Equipment

IV Equipment

Larryngoscopes

• is a medical procedure that is used to obtain a view of the vocal folds and the glottis. Laryngoscopy may be performed to facilitate tracheal intubation during general anesthesia or cardiopulmonary resuscitation or for procedures on thelarynx or other parts of the upper tracheobronchial tree.

Silver Nitrate Oxygen Cage

• Oxygen cage.

Small Animal Oxygen cage

Snook OVH Hook

Staple Remover

Stethoscope

Surgical Personal Protective Equipment

Surgical Tray

Suture Equipment

Syringe

Tattooing Instruments

Tourniquet

Weight Tape