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Operating Scissor, Straight or Curved, Sharp-Sharp
Use: To cut tissue and fine sutures |
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Operating Scissors Straight or Curved,
Sharp-Blunt
Use: To cut tissue and fine sutures |
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Operating Scissors Straight or Curved, Blunt-Blunt
Use: To cut tissue and fine sutures |
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Mayo Dissecting Scissors, Straight or Curved
Use: Used for dissecting or exposing growth & vessels |
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Lister Bandage Scissors
Use: To remove bandages & dressings |
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Littauer Stitch (Suture) Scissors
Use: To remove sutures from healed incisional site |
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Iris (Eye) Scissors, Straight or Curved
Use: Suture removal and delicate surgery |
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Bard-Parker Operating Scalpels
Use: Standard scalpel blade holders for disposable blades |
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Halsted Mosquito Hemostat
Use: To clamp off small vessels or hold tissue |
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Kelly Hemostat Forceps
Use: To clamp off small vessels or hold tissue |
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Rochester-Ochsner Hemostat
Use: To clamp off small vessels or hold tissue |
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Plain Needle Holder
Use: To firmly grasp suture needle |
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Needle Holder with Grooved Jaw and Scissors
Use: To firmly grasp suture needle and cut suture material |
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Plain Needle Holder with Grooved Jaw
Use: To firmly clasp suture needle |
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Plain Splinter Forceps (Thumb-Type)
Use: To grasp foreign bodies embedded in the skin. |
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Backhaus Towel Clamp
Use: To hold drapes in place during surgery |
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Three-Pronged Sterilizer Forceps
Use: To retrieve sterilized instruments from autoclave |
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Sterilizer Forceps
Use: To retrieve sterilized instruments from autoclave |
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Bard-Parker Sterilizer Forceps and Container
Use: To retrieve and move items in a sterile field |
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Allis Tissue Forceps
Use: To grasp muscle and skin flags surrounding a wound |
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Plain Tissue Forceps, 1x2 Teeth
Use: To grasp muscle and skin flaps surrounding wound |
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Plain Thumb Forceps
Use: To insert packing into or removing objects from nose and ear |
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Lucae Bayonet Dressing Forceps
Use: To grasp or hold dressing material |
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Adson Dressing or Tissue Forceps
Use: To grasp tissue or dressings |
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Grooved Director Probe Tip
Use: Find foreign bodies embedded in dermal tissue |
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Nested Trocar, Four Sizes
Use: To withdraw fluids from cavities or draining and irrigating with catheter |
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Ochsner Trocar with Obturator & Drain
Use: To withdraw fluids from cavities or draining and irrigating with catheter |
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Vienna Nasal Speculum
Use: To spread nostrils (nares) for examination. |
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Sims Uterine Curette, Sharp or Blunt
Use: To removed minor polyps, secretions and bits of afterbirth |
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Bozeman Uterine Dressing Forceps
Use: Swab the area or apply medication |
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Schroeder Uterine Tenaculum Forceps
Use: To hold cervix tissue while obtaining a specimen or to lift the cervix to view the fornix |
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Foerster Sponge Forceps
Use: To swab area or apply medication (like dressing forceps) |
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Hegar Uterine Dilator, Double-Ended
Use: To dilate cervix for dilation and curettage (D&C) |
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Sims Uterine Sound
Use: To check the patency (size of opening) of the cervical os |
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Van Buren Urethral Sound
Use: To check the patency of the urethral meatus |
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Krause Nasal Snare
Use: To remove polyps from the naris (Nostril) |
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Hartmann Ear Forceps (Alligator), Plain
Use: To remove foreign bodies or polyps |
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Weider Metal Tongue Depressor
Use: To hold the tongue down while examining the nasopharynx |
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Buck Ear Curette
Use: to remove foreign matter from ear canals |
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Hartmann Eustachian Tube Catheter
Use: To remove foreign bodies or matter from the ear canals |
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Laryngeal Mirror
Use: To view the larynx and postnasal tissue |
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Ivan Laryngeal Metal Applicator
Use: Used with cotton around tip to swab throat or postnasal tissue |
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Senn Double-Ended Retractor and Skin Hook
Use: To hold open small incisions or to secure a skin edge for suturing |
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Freer Dissector And Elevator
Use: To lift connective tissue from bone |
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Grave’s Vaginal Speculum. Petite, Medium
Use: To open or distend a body orifice or cavity |
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