As a surgical nurse this is the second most important in your duty, to know surgical instruments.. what the function for every single tool and in which operation doctors use it.. the first thing most important in your job is.. prevent infection.. I will divide instruments systematically, to be easy to remember..
General Surgery
Name: Scalpel
Use: incising tissues with minimal trauma
types:
- barker #3 handle; small animal
- barker #4 handle: large animal
- barker #8 handle: large animal
Name: Scalpel blade
Use: cutting: draw across tissue lightly at 30-40 degree angle
types:
- #10: incising skin in small animal surgery (most common)
- #11: severing ligaments (slanted blade)
- #12: has hook for lancing abscesses
- #15: small precise blade (ex: ophthalmic SX)
Name: Towel Clips
Use: secure towels and surgical draping during a medical procedure.
Name: allis forceps
Use: Allis forceps have inward-curving blades and a ratcheted handle. This design makes it ideal to grab fascia and tendons. Fascia is a sheet or band of connective tissue, or fibrous tissue, which surrounds the organs, blood vessels, muscles, bones and nerves.
Name: artery forceps
Use: to close ruptured blood vessels. The instrument — also called a hemostat and, more simply, a clamp — is one of modern medicine’s most common tools.
Name: Babcock forceps
Use: holding of delicate tubal structures such as the intestine and fallopoan tube during operation.
Name: Stitch Scissor
Use: performing a suture/stitch or removing one.
Name: Gallipot
Use to: put a sterile liquid in.
Name: Kidney dish
Use: used in hospital for holding small instruments in a field.
Name: Kocher forceps
Use: a strong forceps for controlling bleeding in surgery having serrated blades with interlocking teeth at the tips.
Name: mayo pin
Name: Mayo Scissors
Types: 1. Straight-bladed mayo Scissor: use in cutting body tissues near the surface of the wound. As the straight Mayo scissor is also used for cutting sutures, or stitches, it’s also sold as suture scissors.
2. Curved-bladed Mayo scissor: used to cut thick tissues such as those found in the uterus, muscles, breast and foot.
Name: Mosquito forceps
Use: to hold delicate tissue or compress a bleeding vessel.
Name: Needle holder
Use: to hold the needle when closing a wound with sutures.
Name: Non-tooth forceps
Name: Tooth forceps
Name: Sponge forceps
Use: used to hold swabs or sponges for
mopping up the site.
mopping up the site.
Name: Diathermy handles
Use: to stop bleeding in surgery.
Name: Diathermy forceps
Name: Retractors
Use: They are typically referred to in terms of the type of tissue or organ to be retracted; some examples include abdominal retractors, lung retractors, and skin retractors. Many varieties, such as the Balfour retractor, are named after the person who invented them.
Name: Hook
Use: Retraction.
Name: Straight scissors
