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Veterinary Surgical Instruments
Surgical Instruments used by veterinary professionals
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 1
10/14/2012

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Mayo Dissecting Scissors

 

  • Heavy 
  • Used for cutting tough tissue
  • Straigth or curved
  • Blunt or Sharp
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Definition

Metzenbaum Dissecting Scissors

  • Thin and light weight
  • Used for cutting delicate tissue 
  • Curved or straight 
  • Sharp or blunt 
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Littauer Suture Scissors 

  • Used to cut all suture excpet wire

 

Term
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Lister Bandage Scissors 

  • Cut bandage material 
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Iris Scissors

  • Very small and light weight
  • Used to cut very delicate tissue 
  • Can be curved or staight
  • Sharp or blunt
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Definition

Halstead Mosquito Hemostatic Forceps

  • Small and lightweight
  • Serrations extend entire length of jaw
  • Used to occlude small blood vessels 
  • May be straight or curved 
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Kelly Hemostatic Forceps

  • Medium in size
  • Serrations go half way
  • Used to occlude medium vessels or small tissue masses
Term
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Crile Hemostatic forceps

  • Medium in size
  • Serrations extend entire length of jaw
  • Used to occlude medium vessels or small tissue masses
  • Only curved crile in class
Term
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Rochester Pean Hemostatic Forceps

  • Large in size
  • Serrations extend entire length of jaw
  • Used to clamp large tissue masses and large blood vessels
  • May be straight or curved
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Rochester Carmalt Hemostatic Forceps

  • Large
  • Checker board/ waffle tips
  • Provide traction and crushing
  • Straight or curved
  • Common in OVH
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Rochester Ochsner Hemostatic Forceps 

  • Large in size
  • Similar to pean but have intergrating teeth
  • Aid in grasping tissue
  • May be straight or curved
Term
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Definition

Furguson Angiotribe

  • Crushing jaws
  • Used for tissue that will not be viable
  • Also to make the uterine stump
  • Straight or curved
Term
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Definition

Olsen Hagar Needle Holders

  • They have built in scissors 
Term
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Definition

Mayo Hegar Needle Holders

  • Common
  • No scissors
Term
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Adson Dessing Thumb Forceps

  • No teeth
  • Used to handle dressings
Term
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1x2 or Rat tooth thumb forceps

  • Name based on size
  • Used to grasp tissue
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Adson Brown Thumb Forceps

  • Two parallel rows of teeth
  • Used to manipulate tissue
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Allis tissue forceps

  • May be 3x4 or 4x5 style
  • Used to grasp tough tissue or tissue being removed
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U.S. Army Navy Hand Held Retractor

  • Double ended
  • Retracts tissue 
Term
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Snook Ovariohysterectomy Hook

  • Used to expose the horn of the uterus
Term
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Gelpi Self Retaining Retractor 

  • Sharp pointed tips
  • Used to retract tissue
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Weitlaner Self Retaining Retractor 

  • Used to retract tissue 
Term
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Balfour Self Retaining Retractor 

  • Retracts both laterally and cranially 
Term
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Backhaus Towel Clamp

  • Penetrating
  • Holds drape to patient
Term
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Roeder Towel Clamp 

  • Balls on tips
  • Prevents deep tissue penetration
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Jones Towel Clamp

  • Delicate and light weight
  • Squeeze handle 
  • Holds towel to patient
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Bone curette

  • Used to shape and scrape bone
  • Used to collect bone graft
Term
Polyglactin
Definition
  • Also known as Vicryl
  • Absorbable 
Term
PDS
Definition
Aborbable in 180 days
Term
Catgut
Definition
  • Absorbable 
  • Made from sheep small intestine 
Term
Nylon 
Definition
Non-aborbable 
Term
Polyester
Definition
  • Non-absorbable 
  • Cannot be used on birds
Term
Silk
Definition
  • Non-absorbable
Term
Stainless steel wire
Definition
  • Organic
  • very strong
  • Non-absorbable
Term
7-0, 6-0, 5-0
Definition
  • Very small
  • Used in delicate surgery
Term
4-0, 3-0, 2-0, 1-0
Definition
  • Used for internal suturing 
Term
0, 1, 2
Definition
Used for external suturing 
Term
3
Definition
  • Used for large animal and thinker external suturing 
Term
Instrument cleaning steps
Definition

Presoak:

In distilled water or water w/ specific instrument detergent

 

Decontamination: 

Manual cleaning to remove debris

 

Ultrasonic:

Uses vibration and enzymes to deep clean 


Instrument Milk: 

Lubricates instrument

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