Surgical instruments

Question 1

2 types of needle drivers

Answer 1

Mayo

Webster

Question 2

scalpel used for skin incisions

Answer 2

10 blade

Question 3

scalpel used to open vessels and make stab incisions

Answer 3

11 blade

Question 4

scalpel used for small, precise incisions

Answer 4

15 blade

Question 5

scalpel similar to #10 blade but larger

Answer 5

20 blade

Question 6

What size is the scalpel handle?

Answer 6

7

Question 7

Scissors: multi-purpose workhorse with blunt rounded tips

Answer 7

Mayo scissors

Question 8

Straight mayo

Answer 8

“Suture scissors”
Cut suture, superficial
tissues, fascia

Question 9

Curved mayo

Answer 9

Cut tendons, ligaments,

muscle, heavy tissue

Question 10

Metzenbaum scissors

Answer 10

“Metz”
Straight or curved
Variety of lengths
Used for blunt dissection or cutting delicate tissues
Generally NOT for suture

Question 11

Bandage scissors/ trauma shears are used to ______

Answer 11

but heavy non-tissue materials

Question 12

Used to grasp, hold firmly or exert

traction upon tissue or material

Answer 12

Forceps

Question 13

Pickups aka

Answer 13

thumb forceps

Question 14

Clamps aka

Answer 14

locking forceps

Question 15

4 kinds of thumb forceps

Answer 15

DeBakey Forceps
Adson Forceps
Tissue Forceps with teeth
Russian Forceps

Question 16

Types of Locking Forceps

Answer 16

Mosquito Forceps
Hemostat (Crile forceps)
Kelly Forceps
Tonsil Forceps
Right Angle Forceps
Ring Forceps
Babcock Forceps
Kocher Forceps
Rochester Peon Clamp
Allis Forceps

Question 17

Forceps which have a finer tip than a hemostat

Answer 17

Mosquito forceps

Question 18

Uses for mosquito forceps

Answer 18

Clamp vessels

Grasp bleeding tissue Suture to ligate vessel

Question 19

Crile forceps aka

Answer 19

Hemostat
“Stat”
“Snap”
“Tag”

Question 20

Uses for a hemostat

Answer 20

Clamp vessels
Grasp bleeding tissue
Suture to ligate vessel

Question 21

A larger hemostat

Answer 21

Kelly forceps

Question 22

Uses for kelly forceps

Answer 22

Clamping large blood
vessels
Manipulating heavy tissue
Soft tissue dissection

Question 23

Uses for tonsil forceps

Answer 23

Passing ties
As a dissector when adding sponge ball to tips
Tunneling for drain
placement

Question 24

Uses for right angle forceps

Answer 24

Clamp hard-to -reach vessels and to place sutures behind
or around a vessel
“Tie on a passer“ – right
angle with tie clamped in the tip

Question 25

Ring forceps aka

Answer 25

sponge forceps | sponge stick

Question 26

Uses for ring forceps

Answer 26

Folded sponge in jaws to retract tissue and absorb fluids in the surgical field Tissue removal

Question 27

Babcock forceps aka

Answer 27

Tissue holding forceps

Question 28

Babcock forceps are used for

Answer 28

Hold tubular organs, stomach, bladder, appendix

Question 29

Kocher forceps uses

Answer 29

trauma: hemostasis, hold touch cartilage or ribs during rib resection

Question 30

A large kelly is called a

Answer 30

Rochester Peon Clamp

Question 31

Uses for a rochester peon clamp

Answer 31

traumatic mesenteric hemostasis chest tube insertion

Question 32

Uses for allis forceps

Answer 32

Traumatic hold tough structures grasp tissue that will be removed

Question 33

Uses for penetrating towel clamps

Answer 33

traumatic clamp towels together Clamp tissue for manipulation and removal

Question 34

Uses for non-penetrating towel clamps

Answer 34

Clamp drapes, towels together Clamp items to drapes

Question 35

Caution with penetrating towel clamps

Answer 35

will pierce drapes, gloves, fingers!

Question 36

2 types of self-retaining retractors

Answer 36

Weitlaner (sharp or dull tips) | Gelpi

Question 37

A shallow, superficial retractors (2)

Answer 37

Army navy retractor | Goulet retractor

Question 38

Richardson retractions aka

Answer 38

“Big Rich”, “Baby Rich” Used to retract various tissues

Question 39

Retractors often used in abdomen and chest

Answer 39

Malleable/Ribbon Retractors

Question 40

Retractor used in deep incisions

Answer 40

Dever

Question 41

Used for elevating subcutaneous | tissue, broad surfaces and edges

Answer 41

Rakes

Question 42

"Bovie"

Answer 42

Electrosurgery used to cut, coagulate, desiccate, or destroy tissue Monopolar or bipolar

Question 43

To irrigate by "washout"

Answer 43

pitcher pour

Question 44

To irrigate wounds or wet hands for suture tying

Answer 44

bulb syringe

Question 45

General multi-purpose suction tip

Answer 45

Yankauer

Question 46

suction good for large volume

Answer 46

Poole

Question 47

very fine suction tip

Answer 47

Frazier

Question 48

Allows for suction and irrigation from the same instrument

Answer 48

Suction-irrigator

Question 49

Sponges aka

Answer 49

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