Clamps
Allis Clamp
Alias - None
Use - Grasping
Additional Info - Often used for grasping soft tissue such as breast tissue
Curved hemostats
Alias – None snap
Use – Grasping and holding clamping
Additional Info - The curved hemostat can be used for blunt dissection. It should not be used to clamp
blood vessels or tissues since it will injure these structures.
Straight hemostats
Alias - None
Use – Grasping and holding clamping
Additional Info - The straight hemostat can be used for blunt dissection. It should not be used to clamp
blood vessels or tissues since it will injure these structures. Often used on an open appendectomy.
Kelly Clamp
Alias - Snap none
Use - Grasping or Clamping
Additional Info - The most basic clamp available in virtually all surgical instrument sets. Often used to
clamp large vessels.
Right Angle Clamp
Alias - None Mixter
Use - Clamping
Additional Info – None Used to clamp tissue or grasping a ligature around a curve (such as a pedicle or
blood vessel)
Babcock
Alias - None
Use - Grasping
Additional Info - For grasping soft tissue or bowel, fallopian tube and vas deferens.
Knives (Scalpels)
Surgical scalpels consist of two parts, a blade and a handle. The handles are reusable, with the blades
being replaceable. Medical scalpel handles come in two basic types. The first is a flat handle used in the
#3 and #4 handles. The #7 handle is more like a long writing pen, rounded at the front and flat at the
back. A #4 handle is larger than a #3 handle. Some blades fit both; others are too large or small and can
only fit one or the other.
Handles
Come in regular and long
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Knife Handle #4, Fitting Surgical Blades Numbers 20-25, Extra Fine
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Knife Handle #3 Fitting Surgical Blades Numbers 10, 11, 12 and 15
Blades
#11
Scissors
Metzenbaum scissors
Alias - Metz
Use - Cutting
Additional Info - The most common scissors use for cutting tissue.
Curved mayo
Alias – None Dissecting scissors
Use - Cutting
Additional Info - Common to most surgical trays, used for cutting dense tissue (fascia, muscle, uterus,
breast) where metz scissors are too delicate. Available in regular and long sizes.
Straight Mayo Scissors
Alias - Suture Scissors
Use - Cutting
Additional Info - General purpose and suture cutting scissors, normally not used on tissue.
Forceps
DeBakey Forceps
Alias - Debakey's, Debakey pick ups
Use - Grasping
Additional Info - One of the most common surgical forceps, the fine serrations are useful for grasping
soft tissue, blood vessels and bowel.
Tissue Forceps
Alias
Use
Additional Info
Retractors
Cushing vein retractor
Alias Use Additional Info
Army-Navy retractor
Alias - US Retractor
Use - Tissue or Bone Retraction used to expose superficial wounds
Additional Info - Common to the both major and minor orthopedic and general surgery trays . hand
held; double ended; usually used in pairs
Parker retractor
Alias Use Additional Info
Clamps
Kocher clamp—never used on delicate tissue
Alias: Ochsner
Used to grasp heavy tissue (e.g. fascia)
Aortic Cardiovascular Clamp
Gelpi
Retractors
Weitlaner self-retaining
Richardson Retractor
Deavor Deaver Retractor
Balfour Retractors
Forceps
Toothed forceps (Adson) Adson with teeth
The toothed forceps are used to grasp the skin edges while suturing. They tend to be less traumatic than
non-toothed forceps but can damage tissues if applied forcefully.
Non-toothed forceps Adson forcep without teeth
This is considered to be a more traumatic instrument than its toothed counterpart for grasping tissue.
Russian forceps