Surgical Instrument Basics 100 must knows; use most every day. start here.

BY TONY HULTGRENVALPO, IN.

Ivy Tech Surg Tech 111 Basic 100 Instuments

IVY TECH

. MISSELANEOUS

Yankauer Suction-Removes Fluids

Stringer (for instrument

rings)

Ligating Clip Applier (tubular

structures)

Poole Suction (abdominal cavity)

O. Gull Bladder Trocar (cut through

tissue & suction)

Wire cutters (cut wire)

Friaser (remove fluids from surface)

Silver Probe (explore depth of structure, passage

of a fistula, or a location of an obstruction)

Groove Director (direct silver probe)

Perferating (backhaus) Non-Perferating (Pierce)

.

2 types SSR (self susstaning retractor) HHR (hand-held retractor)

RETRACTORS

.Self Sustaining Retractors

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)

.Hand-Held Retractors

Skin Hook

Sims (vaginal Rectractor)

Heany (Vaginal Retractor)

Jackson (vaginal Retractor)

Army-Navy (retract shallow incisions)

Army-Navy

Murphy (Rake) (dull 2-6 prong)

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

(retract shallow incision)

Lahey (delicate superficial structures)

Ragnell/Davis(dad; bigger) shallow tissue & skin

Senn (retract skin and shallow Tissue)

Mathiew (shallow tissue and skin?)

Cushing Vein (veins & small vessels)

Parker (retract shallow incision)

Roux (shallow incision?)

Goulet (skin & shallow tissue)

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)

. GRASPING

. Tissue forcepts (TF)

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

delicate tissue)

Bayonet (ENT, hard to reach areas)

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

Cushing (with teeth)(delicate tissue)

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)

. Needle Holders

Heaney N.H. (heavy needles; gyne)

heaney=gyne.

Castroviejo (fine cardio, plastic, eye)

Crilewood? (fine, cardiovascular)

DeBakey N.H. (fine needles; thoracic,

cardio,vasc, plastics)

Ryder N.H. (fine needles.. Cardio, vascular,

plasic)

Misscellaneous Grasping

Lahey Tenaculum (thyroid)

Pennington (gyne & hemorrhoidectomy)

Kocher

Babcock (gastrointestinal aka TUBULAR

structures.. Fallopian)

Allis (grasping instrument that causes tissue damage)

Foerster (sponge stick) (nondelicate & fetal

extraction)

. DISSECTING

Mayo (blunt heavy dissection) (straight for suture)

Bandage. (for bandage dissection)(uterus & umbilibal cord for C-Sections)

Mayo (Tungsten Carbide rings)

Mayo

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?

Clamping (hemostats)

Heaney-Ballantine (GYN)

Heaney 1 tooth (GYN)

Heaney-Ballantine (straight)

Heaney 2 tooth (GYN)

Carmalt (vertical striations)

Rankin

Rankin (vessels)

Kelly (small Rankin)

Peon

Crile (straight)

Mosquito (straight)

Mixer (Right angle)