Introduction to Surgical Technology:Basic Instrumentation

By: Amber Mitchell

Stringer (for instrument rings)

Yankauer Suction-Removes Fluids

Poole Suction (abdominal cavity)

Groove Director (direct silver probe)

Perferating (backhaus) Non-Perferating(Pierce)

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Balfor (retract wound edges and internal organs dur abdom)

Gelpi (heavy tissue like muscle)

Adson-Beckman (thyroid, gen, neuro, orthoped)

Weitlaner (shallow, neuro, ortho, gen)

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Skin Hook

Army-Navy (retract shallow incisions)

Army-Navy

Volkman (Rake) (sharp, dull, 2-6 prong)(retract shallow

incision)

Lahey (delicate superficial structures)

Ragnell shallow tissue & skin

Senn (retract skin and shallow Tissue)

Mathiew (shallow tissue and skin?)

Cushing Vein (veins & small vessels)

Parker (retract shallow incision)

Deaver (DEEP cavity)

Harrington (sweetheart)(DEEP CAVITY)

Richardson-Eastman (shallow?)

Malleable (for tissue that requires a specific shape)

Richardson (retract tissue DURRING incision)

Mayo(bladder)(bladder retractor for C section)

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Tissue forcepts(teeth, long)(gauze sponges, dressings & delicate tissue)

Bayonet (ENT, hard to reach areas)

Allis (TRAUMATIC, hold tissue & can cause tissue damage)

Adson (teeth) (delicate tissue & skin)

Ferris Smith (hogs) (heavy tissue)

Brown (heavy tissue, pediatry)

Bonney (heavy tissue)

Cushing (no teeth) (delicate tissue)

Russian

Russian (long) (organs, skin, and OB/GYN)

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Heaney N.H. (heavy needles; gyne) heaney=gyne.

Lahey Tenaculum (thyroid)

Pennington (gyne & hemorrhoidectomy)

Kocher

Babcock (gastrointestinal aka TUBULAR structures.. Fallopian)

Foerster (sponge stick) (nondelicate & fetal extraction)

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Mayo (blunt heavy dissection) (straight for

suture)

Bandage. (for bandage dissection)(uterus &

umbilibal cord for C-Sections)

Mayo

Metzenbaum (cutting & blunt dissection; delicate)

Potts-Smith (Vascular)

Suture? (cut suture)

#3 handle (10,11,12,15)

#4 handle (20) (4/20)

#7 handle (10,11,12,15)

Can you find 10,11,12,15,20?

Kelly

Peon

Crile (straight)

Mosquito (straight)

Mixer (Right angle)