DR Instruments

Question 1

A tool or device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it.

Answer 1

SURGICAL INSTRUMENT

Question 2

These instruments usually have sharp edges or tips to cut through skin, tissue, and suture material.

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CUTTING AND DISSECTING

Question 3

• Used to cut thick tissue, such as those found in the uterus, muscles, breast, and foot.
• Are placed in tissue with the tips closed.
• The scissors are then opened so that the tips open and spread out the tissue during the dissection process.
• Allow deeper penetration into the wound than the type with straight blades.

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MAYO CURVE

Question 4

• Designed for cutting body tissues near the surface of a wound.
• Also used for cutting sutures.
• “Suture scissors”

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MAYO STRAIGHT

Question 5

• Scissors that often have an angled tip with a blunt tip on the bottom blade.
• This helps in cutting bandages without gouging by the skin.

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BANDAGE/EPISIOTOMY SCISSORS

Question 6

These instruments are used in many surgical procedures for compressing blood vessels or hollow organs, to prevent their contents from leaking.

Answer 6

CLAMPING AND OCCLUDING

Question 7

• Commonly used to remove placental fragments inside the uterus.
• Used as a hemostat or preventing blood flow from an open blood flow by compression of vessel.

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OVUM FORCEPS

Question 8

Hemostatic forceps designed for controlling bleeding and handling blood vessels during surgery.

Answer 8

MOSQUITO FORCEPS

Question 9

• Primarily used for clamping large blood vessels or manipulating heavy tissue.
• Also used for soft tissue dissection.
• Can be used as a clamp, heat sink, or third hand.

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KELLY FORCEPS

Question 10

• Also called needle driver, is a surgical instrument, similar to a hemostat, used by doctors and surgeons to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures.

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NEEDLE HOLDER

Question 11

These surgical instruments are used to hold back, or retract organs and tissue so the surgeon has access to the operative area.

Answer 11

RETRACTING AND EXPOSING

Question 12

Gynecologists use it to open the walls of the vagina and examine the vagina and cervix.

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VAGINAL SPECULUM

Question 13

Used to grasp and hold tissue or blood vessels that may be in the way during a surgical procedure.

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GRASPING AND HOLDING

Question 14

• A surgical instrument with sharp teeth, used to hold or grasp heavy tissue.
• Also used to grasp fascia and soft tissues such as breast or bowel tissue.

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ALLIS FORCEPS

Question 15

• Toothed at the tip is used for handling dense tissue, such as in skin closures. Also called “locking forceps”, these are ratcheted instruments used to hold tissue or objects, or provide hemostasis.

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TOOTHED TISSUE FORCEPS

Question 16

Used for fine handling tissue and traction during dissection.

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NON-TOOTHED TISSUE FORCEPS

Question 17

Designed to hold sterile towels as close to the incision as possible.
- Also used to fix suction tubes, diathermy wires, and laparoscopic cables with the draping materials.

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TOWEL CLIPS

Question 18

• Shallow basin with a kidney-shaped base and sloping walls used in medical and surgical wards to receive soiled dressings and other medical waste.
• Commonly used to receive delivered placenta for assessment after vaginal delivery or caesarian section.

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KIDNEY/EMESIS BASIN

Question 19

• A surgical instrument designed for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure.
• In form, it is a small hand tool similar in shape to a stylus; at the tip of it is a small scoop, hook, or gouge.

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CURETTE

Question 20

Used for scraping endometrial cavity to obtain sample for histopathology.

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CURETTE

Question 21

Used in gynecology

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SHARP CURETTE

Question 22

Used in pregnancy check curettage.

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BLUNT CURETTE

Question 23

Done commonly for Menorrhagia, Endometrial Carcinoma, Infertility, Tuberculosis of endometrium.

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DIAGNOSTIC D & C

Question 24

Has a secondary beneficial advantage of reducing the bleeding in menorrhagia.

Answer 24

CURETTE

Question 25

• A device for sounding of the uterus and used to avoid perforation.
• The polyethylene cursor is designed for accurate and easy reading of the uterine depth.

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HYSTEROMETER

Question 26

• Used to scratch and hold vault/cervix
• Steadying the cervix and uterus, as done during insertion of IUD during surgical abortion.

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TENACULUM FORCEPS

Question 27

• Stabilize the cervix to allow passage of sound and IUD through the OS.
• Straighten any irregularities in the cervical canal.
• Straighten uterine curvatures or flexion.

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TENACULUM FORCEPS