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Scalpel
- Best instrument for incising tissues with minimal trauma
- Many different blades are used for different reasons
- Bard-parker #3 handle is used most common for small animal
- Bard-Parker #4 handle is best used for large animal Sx
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Electrosurgery
- Electrosurgery used to cut or coagulate tissue to help minimize bleeding
- Pass a high frequency alternating electrical through the tissue
- Monopolar- current passes from the hand piece through the Pt. to a metal plate
- Bipolar- the current is passed between two tips on the hand piece which grasps the tissue.
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Mayo dissecting scissors
heavy scissors used to cut dense connective tissue |
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Metzenbaum dissecting scissors (curved)
used for cutting delicate tissue, fat
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Littauer suture removal scissors
used to cut all suture except wire
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Lister bandage scissors
used to cut bandage material |
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Operating scissors
vary by the type of blades (pointed, curved, or straight)
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Olsen-Hegar
Holds curves suture needles, built in suture scissor |
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Mayo-Hegar
Holds curves suture needles, no scissors |
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Brown-Adson thumb forceps
have multiple intermeshing teeth, suturing and wound closure |
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Rat tooth thumb forceps
have large interdigitating teeth and are used for skin |
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Adson thumb forceps
have delicate intermeshing teeth,
grasp delicate tissue, dissection |
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dressing forceps
used to grab gauze |
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Towel Clamps
To hold towels. Will puncture towel and hold onto the skin. Very sharp |
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Allis tissue forceps
securely grasp tissue and crush it |
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Babcock forceps
shaped the same as Allis but less traumatic-smoother grasping surface and less tip compression |
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Doyen intestinal tissue forceps
more delicatet than Allis or Babcock - holds and occlude intestine |
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Kelly Hemostatic Forceps
Used to stop bleeding, by crushing vessels. Straight, Most have transverse grooves on the inside to grasp the tissue |
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Crile Hemostatic Forceps
Used to stop bleeding, by crushing vessels. Straight, Most have transverse grooves on the inside to grasp the tissue |
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Halsted mosquito hemostats
small and designed to occlude small vessels |
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Rochester-Pean
Used to stop bleeding, by crushing tissue bundles and large vessels |
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Rochester-Ochsner
Used to stop bleeding, have interdigitating teeth at the tips that allows it to get a better grip, large animal or orthopedic surgery |
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Rochester-Carmalt
clamping across tissue containing vessels-spays |
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Army-Navy retractors
move skin, muscle, fat,dbl ended, both smooth blades |
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Senn retractor
move skin, muscle, fat, Double-ended; 1 smooth blade, 1 end with 3 sharp hooks |
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Malleable retractor
move skin, muscle, fat,
Thin metal easily bent to desired shape
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Snook hook (spay hook)
hand held, use for spays, exposes the horn of the uterus |
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Hohmann retractor
Single blade and a handle used to lever tissues out of the way - orthopedic surgery |
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Balfour retractors
provides exposure to the abdominal cavity |
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Weitlaner retractors
self retaining in orthopedic and neurologic surgery |
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Gelpi retractors
self retaining in orthopedic and neurologic surgery |
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Finochietto rib spreader
exposes thoracic cavity |
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Poole Suction Tip
Abdominal or thoracic cavity, has outer sleeve with small holes, prevents tissue from being entrapped |
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Frazier Suction Tip
Orthopedic and neurologic surgery |
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Yankauer Suction Tip
General purpose tip |
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gastrointestinal stapler (GIA)
easier and faster than hand suturing |
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Rongeurs
sharp cupped tips that are used to cut pieces of dense tissue (bone cartilage, fibrous tissue) |
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Bone holding forceps
hold bone and fragments in alignment |
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Curettes
Scrape hard tissue, like bone or cartilage |
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Periosteal Elevators
Pry periosteum or muscle from the bone surface |
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Osteotomes and chisels
cut bone, by pounding on the flared end of the handle |
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Trephines
Used to remove core for a biopsy |
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Gigli Wire
Cut bone by placing wire around bone and drawing it back and forth in a sawing fashion |
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