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Name: Ring Forceps, Sponge Forceps
Category: Grasping and Holding
Uses: Create a sponge stick (with a 4x4 or 4x8 Raytec sponge), grasp tissues such as lungs, or removing uterine contents
* Must specify CURVED or STRAIGHT |
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Name: Iris Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: Cut delicate tissue during plastic, hand and minor vascular surgery
*This instrument is TRAUMATIC*
*Must specify STRAIGHT or CURVED*
* 4 1/ 2" long
* Small, fine, sharp blades, sharp tip |
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Name: Potts-Smith Scissors, Vascular Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: To extend venotomy or arteriotomy incisions
* Various lengths, blades range from 25° to 60° angles |
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Name: Tenotomy Scissors, Stevens Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: Dissect fine tissue (like in hand surgery), to penetrate tissue, spread and cut tissue
* Must specify STRAIGHT or CURVED
* Varieties include: short narrowed tip; straight; slightly curved blades; |
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Name: Bandage Scissors, Lister Scissors, Esmarch Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: Cut bandages and dressings, to open uterus during a c-section and avoid harm to the fetus
* Various lengths |
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Name: Jorgenson Scissors, Gallbladder Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: dissecting scissors used in GYN and general procedures
* Rounded tip
* 100% smooth blades, no serrations |
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Name: Straight Mayo Scissors, Suture Scissors
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: Cutting suture
* Must specify STRAIGHT or CURVED |
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Name: Curved Mayo Scissors, Heavy Tissue Scissors
Category: CUtting and Dissecting
Uses: Dissect heavy tissues
* Must specify STRAIGHT or CURVED |
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Name: Curved Metzenbaum Scissors, Metz
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Uses: Dissect delicate tissues
* Must Specify CURVED or STRAIGHT
* You will rarely pass the straight metz
* Thin shanks, much lighter than Mayo scissors |
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Name: Lahey Tenaculum
Category: Grasping and Holding
Uses: Grasping tissue that is being removed (thyroid, uterus)
* Has 3x3 teeth
* Length 6" to 8"
* This instrument is TRAUMATIC |
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Name: Debakey Clamp
Category: Clamping and Occluding
Uses: Occluding vessels
* This instrument is ATRAUMATIC
* On this particular Debakey, the serrations of the jaw go halfway down, while the remainder of the jaws do NOT meet |
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