Needle holder - use to hold suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedure.

Dissection hook - use as probes for dissection and for raising blood vessels.

Cautery spatula - coagulating instrument to control of bleeding for hemostasis.

Clip applicator - use to clip or grasp tissues in place.

Hook scissor - Connected to diathermy this instrument is the main dissector used in laparoscopic surgery

Curved scissor - often cutting tools with blades that are bent to accommodate some specific cutting tasks

Sterilization ring applicator - use if sterilization procedure is needed. Toothed Grasper - Used for grasping tough tissue particularly if it is to be resected as the teeth may damage normal tissues.

Suction irrigation cannula - designed to provide clog-free suction, ensuring laparoscopic procedure progress smoothly.

Scissor - use to cut tough tissues

Atraumatic Grasper - Although more delicate than their toothed counterparts these dissectors may still damage normal tissue and care must

always be taken when handling delicate structures.

Suction Irrigator - A combination instrument that allows irrigation with fluid and suction to clear the area through the same instrument. Veress needle - a spring-loaded needle used to create pneumoperitoneum for laparoscopic surgery

Trocar & Cannula - is a medical instrument with a sharply pointed end, often three-sided, that is used inside a hollow cylinder (cannula) to introduce this into blood vessels or body cavities. Trocars are also used to introduce ports in the abdomen, such as during laparoscopic surgery

Olsen-Reddick - used to perform operative cholangiography. A catheter is passed down the centre of the instrument which also has a clamping mechanism to hold the catheter in position within the duct.

Stone Scoop - useful to pick up and retrieve small dropped items without crushing them such as gallstones during laparoscopic surgery.

Telescope - secondary effect of allowing others to view the surgical field either on color video monitors or by watching the video feed over the Internet at a remote location

Maryland Grasper - Slightly curved graspers that can be used to bluntly dissect as well as grasp tissue.

Cautery used to burn a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it

Mixters - Right angled instruments in either 5 or 10mm that are used to pass behind structures.

Disposable suture - Allows simple single handed placement of sutures and knot tying

Heavy toothed grasper - long shard teeth that cause significant trauma to tissues. They do provide a firm grasp on most tissues though and are used to retrieve resected specimens such as the gallbladder for removal from the abdomen

Ultrasonic dissector - Using mechanical energy the ultrasonic dissector coagulates and cuts tissue with excellent haemostatic properties and little dissemination of energy into surrounding tissues.

Laparoscopic ultrasound probe - Used primarily in the staging of upper gastrointestinal malignancies. The combination of exploratory laparoscopy and ultrasound examination of the liver, nodes and other solid organs allows improved patient selection for attempted curative resection

Disposable tacking device - spiral tack allows fixation of meshes during laparoscopic hernia repair.

Disposable bag - Allows containment of resected tissue to prevent soilage with infection or malignancy thereby preventing contamination and spread

Disposable stapler-cutter - particular device allows different sizes of staple to be fired by the same body of the stapler. Hinged mechanisms or "roticulating" devices improve access and positioning during laparoscopic surgery.

Disposable retractor - Passed through a 10mm port this instrument then fans out to provide broad retraction.

Laparoscopic tower - particular device allows different sizes of staple to be fired by the same body of the stapler. Hinged mechanisms or "roticulating" devices improve access and positioning during laparoscopic surgery.