Common Surgical Instruments Flashcards

Question

#15 blade

Answer 1

occasionally used for SQ or fascial incisions

Answer 2

**Beaver Blade Scalpel Handle** *blades: 62, 64, 65, 67; pencil grip at all times, intraocular surgery, intra-articular structures*

Answer 3

mayo scissors metzenbaum scissors stevens tenotomy scissors spencer stitch scissors vernon cartikage and wire scissors

Answer 4

**Straight Mayo Dissecting Scissors** * thick blades; used to incise dense tissue (fascia, linea, alba, trimming skin)* * "Mayo makes you fat"*

Answer 5

**Straight Metzenbaum Scissors** *thin delicate blade, used to incise soft tissues (SQ, intestine, bladder, etc)*

Answer 6

**Stevens Tenotomy Scissors** *narrow, delicate tipped precision scissors; precision cutting (ophthalmic and urologic surgery)*

Answer 7

**Spencer Stitch Scissors** *post-op suture removal*

Answer 8

**Vernon Cartilage and Wire Scissors** * incise thick, though tissue & orthopedic wire* * can be used to cut suture inta-operatively*

Answer 9

mayo-hegar needle holders olsen-hegar needle holders castroviejo needle holders derf needle holders

Answer 10

**Mayo-Hegar Needle Holders** *size of driver jaws should match needle size*

Answer 11

**Olsen-Hegar Needle Holders** *combined needle driver/scissor*

Answer 12

**Derf Needle Holders** *ophthalmic needle drivers*

Answer 13

**Castroviejo Needle Holders** *microsurgery needle driver, ophthalmic and vascular surgery*

Answer 14

balfour retractors finochietto retractors gelpi retractor weitlaner retractor

Answer 15

army-navy retractor malleable retractor hohmann retractor senn retractor snook hook/ spay hook

Answer 16

**Balfour Retractor** *retract abdominal wall laterally, central bladder blade used to retract rib cage cranially*

Answer 17

**Finochietto Retractor** *adjustable rib retractor*

Answer 18

**Gelpi Retractor** *ring retractor with self-retaining ratchet, retraction of solf tissues*

Answer 19

**Weitlaner Retractor** *ringed retracotor with self-retaining ratchet, retract soft tissue in a small superficial incision*

Answer 20

**Army Navy Retractor** *double ended blunt retractor, soft tissue and orthopedic surgery, typically used by assistant*

Answer 21

**malleable Retractor** ## Footnote *can be bent at various angles, retract viscera in abdominal and thoracic surgery*

Answer 22

**Hohmann Retractor** *lever muscle and soft tissue away from surgical field and bone during ortho sx*

Answer 23

**Senn Retractor** *double ended retractor, used for both soft tissue and orthopedic surgery*

Answer 24

**Snook Hook/Spay Hook** *used to blindly hook the uterine horn/mesometrium during OHE, can be used to retract thin layers of superficial tissue*

Answer 25

**Kern Borne Holding Forceps** *grip and manipulate bone during fracture reduction and repair*

Answer 26

**Speed Lock Bone Holding Forceps** *used to grip and manipulate bone during fracture reduction and repair*

Answer 27

**Jacob's Chuck** *used to drive IM pins and K wires during orthopedic surgery*

Answer 28

**Mallet** *used to advance an osteotome for precise osteotomies*

Answer 29

**Chisel and Osteotome** * osteotome bevelled on both sides, chisel bevelled on one side* * osteotome more commonly used, used to create osteotomy in numberous procedures*

Answer 30

**Periosteal Elevator** *reflect muscle and soft tissue from bone*

Answer 31

**Freer Periosteal Elevator** *small periosteal elevator, double ended, standard in every ortho surgery pack*

Answer 32

**Lempert Rongeur** *used to remove small fragments of bone or prepare bone for grafting*

Answer 33

**Barraquer Eyelid Speculum** *used to hold eyelids open during enucleations, surgery of cornea and third eyelid*

Answer 34

**Jaeger Eyelid Plate** ## Footnote *protect globe when making incisions into the eyelid*

Answer 35

**Backhaus Towel Clamp** *hold quarter draps or huck towels to patient skin*

Answer 36

**Poole Suction Tip** *suction large amount of fluid from body cavity*

Answer 37

**Frazier Suction Tip** *removal of small amounts of fluid from surgical field, most used for orthopedic and neurologic surgery*

Answer 38

**Wing Tipped Dental Elevator** *used to sever peridontal ligament by rotating around tooth*

Answer 39

**Wedge Tipped Dental Elevators** *luxators, used to weaken peridontal ligament and luxate tooth for extraction*

Answer 40

**Curette** *subgingival cleansing, root planing and curettage*

Answer 41

**Scaler** *removes dental deposits from above gumline*

Answer 42

**Extraction Forceps** *used to grasp loose/luxated teeth for extraction*

Answer 43

**Calculus removal forceps** *remove large pieces of calculi prior to scaling*

Answer 44

**Dental Explorer** *increases tactile sensation for detecting areas of enamel decay*

Answer 45

**Periodontal Probe** *used to measure pocket depths around tooth*