Surgical Instruments

Allis clamp Use- for Grasping. Often used for grasping soft tissue such as breast tissue or bowel tissue Found in minor and major packs

Army Navy Retractor or US Retractor Use: Tissue or Bone Retraction. Found in both major and minor orthopedic and general surgery trays .

Babcock

Use - Grasping For grasping soft tissue or bowel.

Tissue Forceps (toothed)

Use - Grasping - Often used for grasping fascia during the closure of abdominal surgery or for closure and suturing of large orthopedic procedures such as total knee and total hip replacement surgery.

Metzenbaum Scissors
- Metz Use - Cutting - The most common scissors use for cutting tissue. .

Curved Mayo Scissors Use - Cutting Common to most surgical trays, used for cutting dense tissue where metz scissors are too delicate.

Mayo straight Scissors or Suture Scissors Use - Cutting - General purpose and suture cutting scissors, normally not used on tissue.

Debakey Forceps or Debakey's

Use - Grasping - One of the most common surgical forceps, used for grasping soft tissue, blood vessels and bowel.

Castro-Viejo Needle Driver or Castro's

Use - Suturing - Castro viejo needle drivers are most common to Vascular, Opthalmic, and delicate Cosmetic Surgery. The come in both locking and non-locking varieties depending on surgeon preference and are used for very fine suture in the 5-0 and smaller range.

Mayo Bodywall Retractor Used for Retraction - For rectration in large abdominal surgeries.

Adson Bipolar Forceps

Alm retractor

brain forceps
- used to help in fetal delivery by allowing the doctor to adjust the position of the unborn child's head during delivery

Dressing forceps
have blunt tips with grooves and were originally designed to hold gauze. However, they can used to pick up almost anything and the longer ones are handy for hard to reach places. For very finer work, see splinter & thumb forceps or watchmaker forceps.

Richardson Retractor
Use : used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions. Available in multiple sizes as well as single and double ended. This is one of the most common general surgery retractors.

Balfour retractor Used to hold open abdominal incisions during a laparotomy.

Weitlaner selfretaining
designed for use in the following surgical specialties: peripheral vascular surgery in the carotid, subclavian, femoral, popliteal and tibial regions. Spinal surgery in the cervical and lumbar regions. Orthopedic surgery in shoulder and hip procedures. General surgery for inguinal hernia, appendectomy and many minor procedures

Towel clamp used to maintain surgical towels and drapes in the correct position during an operation

hemostats straight & curved used in almost any surgical procedure, to control bleeding

Vein retractor

Curved crile

Curved Rochester-Pean Forceps

Needle holder
Used to hold a suturing needle for closing wounds during suturing and surgical procedures.

Tenaculum
Used to grasp and hold tissues. Also used to hold tissues steady for surgical procedures, to hold tissues out of the way, or to grasp tissues for the purpose of manipulating them

Polyp forcep Used to grasp. Used in D&C surgery

Uterine packaging forcep

Pratt dilators
used to widen the opening of the cervix. Used in surgeries on genitalia

Deaver
Used for Retracting Available in multiple widths and common to many surgical trays for general, orthopedic and GYN surgery.

Uterine curette
used to remove tissue or growths from a body cavity. This uterine curette is inserted into the uterine cavity and the wall of the cavity is scraped.

Tenotomy scissor
used for delicate surgery on eyelids, lips, etc, where extreme control is necessary. They are ideal for tissue dissection. They are available in different lengths and sizes, to suit various surgical procedures.

Curved iris scissor

are designed for eye surgery and not for skin surgery and hence the name. Iris scissors are used for remove necrotic tissue. These are very sharp, pointed scissors, available with either curved or angular cutting blades.

Volkmann bone curettes Used for bone scraping. Used during major and minor bone surgery

Duval lung forceps

Baby Bennette Retractor

Blade/ skin blade

Used to make incision

Gelpi
Used to retract usually on a spine surgery

Wylie External Carotid Clamp

Used for clamping the external carotid. Exclusive for carotid surgery

Kocher Clamp
Used to control bleeding. It is straight haemostat with interlocking teeth on the tip

Scapula Retractor
Used to retract shoulder girdle. Used during spine surgery

Vaginal speculum weighted

Used to retract vaginal orifice during vaginal surgery

Dural retractor

Hand Tray (Rubber Mat, 2- Army-Navy Retractors, 2- Vein Retractors, 1- Debakey Forcep, 1- Smooth Forcep, 1- Tissue Pick-Up Forcep, 2- Smooth Adson, 2- Adson w/ Teeth, 1Brown-Adson, 1- Andrew Pynchon Suction, 1- Frazier #8 w/ Stylet, & the Strung Instruments)

Lap Chole Set-up on Mayo Stand (Trocars, Needle Holder, Suture, FRED, Kockers, Criles, Curved Long Metz, Thumb Forceps, Adson Forceps, Knife Blade, Local Anes., Marking Pen, 4x4 Vistec Sponges, Straight Mayo, Bovie w/ Lap L Hook Cautery, S Retractors, 30-degree Scope)

Back Table Set-up for Lap Chole (Minor Tray, Lap Tray, Lap Chole Tray, Linvatec Light Cord, EL5ML Clip Applier)

Back Table Set-up for Lap Chole- continued (ACMI Surgiflex Suction and Irrigation, Suture, Sharps Counter, X-tra Local in Medicine Cups, Basin, Patient Drape, Steri-Strips)

Back Table Back Table for Lap Chole (Minor Tray w/ Reusable Trocar Set from Lap Tray) Set-up for Lap Chole- continued (ACMI

Minor Tray (Skin Hooks & Small Retractors, Scalple Handles, Forceps, 2- Clips, Long Stringer Set, 2- Medicine Cups, Pynchon Suction, 2- Vein Retractors, 2- Army Navy Retractors, 2- Goulet Retractors, 3- Richardson Retractors various sizes)

Finished Laparotomy Tray

Stringer from Laparotomy Tray ((6- Criles, 6- Carmalts, 2- Allis, 2Babcocks, 4- Vanderbilts, 2- Long Right Angles, 2- Long Allis, 2Long Babcocks, 6" Metz, 9" Metz, 6" Curved Mayo, 9" Curved Mayo, 2- 8" Needle Holder, Long Needle Holder, 2- 8" Kochers, 2Potts Clamps, Satinsky Clamp, 2- Sponge Forcep) Poole Suction)