Instruments

Question 1

Answer 1

Name: Allis-Adair Forceps

Allias: Big Allis forceps

Category: Grasping and holding

Function: Lifting, holding, and retracting slippery dense tissue that is being removed

Question 2

Answer 2

Name: No. 10 Blade

Allias: None

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Used for making skin incisions

Question 3

Answer 3

Name: Crile Forceps

Allias: Hemostat

Category: Clamping and Occluding

Function: Used for occluding bleeders before cauterization or ligation. May also be used for blunt dissection.

Question 4

Answer 4

Name: Mixter Forceps

Allias: Right angle, Gemini

Category: Clamping and Occluding

Function: Used to clamp, dissect, and occlude tissue. Also used to loop under and around tubular structures.

Question 5

Answer 5

Name: Metzenbaum Scissors

Allias: Metz, tissue scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Used to dissect delicate tissues

Question 6

Answer 6

Name: Kocher Forceps

Allias: Ochsner

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Used for grasping tough, fibrous, slippery tissues such as muscle and fascia.

Question 7

Answer 7

Name: Foerster Sponge Forceps

Allias: Fletcher sponge forceps, spong stick forceps, ring forceps

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Used for creating a sponge stick, for grasping tissues such as the longs, or for removing uterine contents.

Question 8

Answer 8

Name: Toothed tissue forceps

Allias: Rat tooth

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Used for grasping moderate to heavy tissue and used during wound closure.

Question 9

Answer 9

Name: Debakey Tissue Forceps

Allias: DeBakey’s, Debakes

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Grasps numerous types of tissue; commonly used in cardiac, vascular surgery, and gastrointestinal procedures.

Question 10

Answer 10

Name: Lahey Forceps

Allias: Lahey

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Used to grasp fibrous tissue

Question 11

Answer 11

Name: No. 15 Blade

Allias: None

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Used for creating small precise incisions.

Question 12

Answer 12

Name: No. 11 Blade

Allias: None

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Used for puncturing the skin or to open an artery.

Question 13

Answer 13

Name: Babcock Forceps

Allias: None

Category: Grasping and Holding

Function: Used for grasping delicate structures such as the ureters, fallopian tubes, bowel, ovaries, and appendix.

Question 14

Answer 14

Name: Kelly Forceps

Allias: Hemostat, Rochester-Pean Forceps

Category: Clamping and Occluding

Function: Used for occluding bleeders before cauterization and ligation.

Question 15

Answer 15

Name: Halstead

Allias: Mosquito

Category: Clamping and Occluding

Function: Used for occluding bleeders in small or superfical wounds before cauterization or ligation.

Question 16

Answer 16

Name: Tonsil Forceps

Allias: Adson Forceps

Category: Clamping and Occluding

Function: Clamps small vessels in a deep wound or holds tonsil sponges

Question 17

Answer 17

Name: Straight Mayo Scissors

Allias: Suture Scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Used for cutting sutures

Question 18

Answer 18

Name: Curved Mayo Scissors

Allias: Heavy Tissue Scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Function: Dissect heavy fibrous tissues

Question 19

Answer 19

Name: Army-Navy Retractor

Allias: Army’s, Navy’s, U.S. retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Used for retraction of small superficial incisions to allow better exposure

Question 20

Answer 20

Name: Goelet Retractor

Allias: Bull retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Used for retractoin of small superficial incisions to allow better exposure

Question 21

Answer 21

Name: Senn Retractor

Allias: Cat paw retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Used for retraction of skin edges and deeper tissues of small incisions

Question 22

Answer 22

Name: Malleable Retractor

Allias: Ribbon Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Used for retractoin of organs and intestines in a wound

Question 23

Answer 23

Name: Parker Retractor

Allias: Park bench retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Used for retraction and exposure of a small shallow wound.

Question 24

Answer 24

Name: Weitlaner Retractor

Allias: None

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Function: Holds wound edges open (self-retaining)

Question 25

Answer 25

**Name:** Richardson Retractor **Allias:** Rich retractor **Category:** Retracting and Exposing **Function:** Used for retraction of wound edges

Question 26

Answer 26

**Name:** Appendiceal **Allias:** None **Category:** Retracting and Exposing **Function:**?

Question 27

Answer 27

**Name:** Deaver Retractor **Allias:** None **Category:** Retracting and Exposing **Function:** Used for deep retraction of organs and viscera

Question 28

Answer 28

**Name:** Harrington Retractor **Allias:** Sweetheart Retractor **Category:** Retracting and Exposing **Function:** Used for retraction deep in abdominal wound; often used for liver and intestine.

Question 29

Answer 29

**Name:** Hemoclip Appliers **Allias:** Ligaclip Applier **Category:** Clamping and Occluding **Function:** Used to clip vessels instead of tying