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This editorial is about the seventy-four different types of medical instruments. HNM Medical releases articles explaining in detail about surgical procedures and surgical instruments such as dilator, pessary, forceps and other medical tools. Surgical Instrument: #3 Knife Handle Alias: Scalpel Use: Holds a knife blade. Info: Primarly for the 15, 11, 10 knife blades. Surgical Instrument: #7 Knife Handle Use: Is used to attach a knife blade. Info: Use with a 15 Blade. Surgical Instrument: 10 Blade Alias: Skin Blade Use: To incise into the skin. Info: Is mainly used to attach to the #3 handle. Surgical Instrument: 15 Blade Use: Multi-function blade Info: Mainly for #7 or #3. Surgical Instrument: 11 Blade Use: To cut Info: Mainly used for making cuts with surgical scissors for laparoscopic trocars. Surgical Instrument: Neuro-Spine Surgery Alias: Hockey stick Use: Dissection Surgical Instrument: Adenoid Curette Use: Curetting Info: Used for ENT andenoid-ectomies. Surgical Instrument: Alexander Periosteotome Use: To cut Info: Typically found in chest vascular sets Surgical Instrument: Angled Debakey Use: To grab Info: Used for a tonsillectomy. Surgical Instrument: AP Suction Alias: Used for suction of the tonsils Use: Suction Surgical Instrument: Babcock Use: Grasping Info: Generally used to grab soft tissue, bowel tissue & lymph nides. Surgical Instrument: Beaver Blade Handle Use: To cut Info: Mainly for small orthopedic surgeries such as hand and foot surgery. Surgical Instrument: Rib Shear Use: Cutting Info: Large bone cutting shear Surgical Instrument: Electrocautery Pencil Alias: Bovie Use: coagulation Info: Plugs into an electro surgical unit (ESU) for cutting & coagulation of tissue. Needs a grounding pad for the patient. Surgical Instrument: Breast Template Alias: Cookie Cutter Use: Template Info: To restore the features of the nipple while doing breast surgery. Surgical Instrument: Brun Currette Use: Curretting bone Info: Available with many cup sizes and varying degrees of angle for the head. Surgical Instrument: Finochietto Use: Retraction Info: Used to spread and retract the rib cage for thoracic surgery. Surgical Instrument: Sayer Elevator Alias: Butter Knife Use: used to break the nasal or septal bone. Surgical Instrument: Carmault Use: Clamp Info: The same size as a peon and larger to the Kelly, it clamps the bowel with its carmault. Surgical Instrument: Cartilage Block Use: To cut the surface. Info: To prepare of grafts to be placed during rhinoplasty surgery. Surgical Instrument: Cartilage Crusher Use: To crush Info: During nose surgeries to crush the cartilage for re-implantation. Surgical Instrument: Castro Viejo Purpose: Suturing Additional Info: Fine needle driver for tiny vessels and nerves available both non-locking and locking. Surgical Instrument: Cobb elevator Purpose: Blunt dissection & elevating Surgical Instrument: Corneal Shield Purpose: Eye Protection Additional Info: During the facial plastic surgery the corneal shield is used to protect the eyes and to prevent cornel abrasions you should use lacrilube or any other eye lubricant. Surgical Instrument: Cottle Elevator Purpose: To dissect Additional Info: Most often seen in nasal sets Surgical Instrument: Curved Allis Purpose: Grasping Additional Info: For Grasping the tonsils during tonsillectomy. Surgical Instrument: Curved Dissector Alias: Maryland Grasper, dolphin nose Purpose: To dissect Additional Info: Can be connected to a cautery cord and often is used to ligate vessels to cut during cholecystectomy surgery. Surgical Instruments: Doyan Rib Rasp Purpose: To dissect Additional Info: Familiar to the thoracic set. Surgical Instrument: Davis Mouth Gag Purpose: Tor retract Additional Info: Connected to the mayo stand to hold the mouth open during a tonsillectomy. Surgical Instrument: Electrocautery Pencil Purpose: Slicing & coagulation Additional Info: Needs a grounding pad for the patient & plugs into the ESU (electro surgical unit) for coagulation & cutting of tissue. Surgical Instrument: Freeman Retractor Purpose: To retract Additional Info: Common hand held retractor used in cosmetic proceudre. Surgical Instrument: Burford Finochietto Purpose: Retraction Additional Info: Used to spread and retract the rib cage for thoracic surgery. Surgical Instrument: Finochietto Blade Purpose: Retraction Additional Info: Variable in size, attached to a finochetti retractor. Surgical Instrument: Four Pronged Skin Hooks Purpose: Retraction Additional Info: Small Skin Retractor Occasionally can be found in a surgical instrument sets. Surgical Instrument: Frazier Suction Tip Purpose: Suction Additional Info: Mainly found in orthopedic surgery and ENT. Surgical Instrument: Freer Elevator Purpose: blunt and elevating cutting Additional Info: Typical in tiny orthopedic surgeries. Surgical Instrument: Guarded Osteotome Purpose: Cutting Additional Info: While doing a rhinoplasty, you can see this instrument being used on the nasal bone and septal for cutting. Surgical Instrument: Gelpi Purpose: Retraction Additional Info: Self-retaining retractor generally in spine procedure. Surgical Instrument: Shallow Gelpi Purpose: Retraction Surgical Instrument: Heaney Needle Holder Purpose: Suturing Additional Info: Recognized by the curved jaw. Surgical Instrument: Hemo Clip Applier Purpose: Ligation Additional Info: Comes in disposable and non-disposable types. Is also used to ligate vessels. Surgical Instrument: Hoen Elevator Purpose: Blunt dissectioncutting Surgical Instrument: Hoke Osteotome Purpose: Dissection Surgical Instrument: Nasal Rasp Purpose: Rasp Info: Rasp for Rhinoplasty procedures. Surgical Instrument: Nasal Speculum Purpose: To retract Info: Used to glance up the naval cavity Surgical Instrument: Nerve Hook Purpose: Retraction Info: For retraction of small delicate neurological structures. Surgical Instrument: Olive Tip Suction Purpose: Suction Info: For suction with in the sinus cavity Surgical Instrument: Penfield 1 Purpose: To Dissect Surgical Instrument: Penfield 2 Purpose: For Dissection Surgical Instrument: Penfield 3 Purpose: Dissection Surgical Instrument: Penfield 4 Purpose: To Dissect Info: Sometimes you can find bone wax on the back of Penfield 4. Surgical Instrument: Penfield's Purpose: Dissection Info: From Penfield 1-4 side by side. Surgical Instrument: Poole Suction Purpose: Suction Info: Used for suction of large volumes of irrigation fluid out of the abdominal cavity. Medical Instrument: Putti Rasp Purpose: Grating Info: Rasping bone; Used to contour the bone right after a surgery if amputation was done. Surgical Instrument: Rib Approximator Purpose: Bringing the ribs together. Info: Common to the thoracic plastic surgery instruments set. Surgical Instrument: Rongeur Purpose: To cut Surgical Instrument: Double Action Rongeur Purpose: Cutting Info: Bigger than a single action rongeur. Surgical Instrument: Rummel Stylet Info: A surgical instrument that can be found primarily in surgical instrument sets. Surgical Instrument: Sauerbruch Rongeur Purpose: For cutting Info: Mainly seen in a chest vascular surgical instrument sets. A large double action rongeur. Surgical Instrument: Sickle Knife Purpose: Cutting Info: Usually seen in the nose cavity. Its a cutting blade, non-disposable. Surgical Instrument: Sinus Currette Purpose: Scraping tissue, curretting Info: For slicing into the cavity of the nose. Surgical Instrument: Sinus Probe Alias: Seeker Purpose: Probing Info: Commonly seen inside the nose canal probing. Surgical Instrument: Shenoid Punch Use: Cutting Description: Used on the sphenoid sinus cannal to create a hole in order to have access. Surgical Instrument: Double Tooth Tenaculum Use: To grasp Surgical Instrument: Tendon Passerd Description: Used in hand and foot surgery for passing tendons for reattachment. Surgical Instrument: Tonsil Snare Use: To cut Description: Its use is to slice the tonsils out of throat. It does this by having a wire come out, wrapping around the tonsils. Then retracts to cut it. Normally not found any longer among the surgical scissors family, due to the fact that there's other ways to clot the bleeding. Surgical Instrument: Two Pronged Skin Hook Use: For retraction Description: Small skin retractor. Surgical Instrument: Vein Retractor Use: A retractor of the vein. Surgical Instrument: Vessel Irrigator Use: To irrigate Description: Has heparinized saline and is used for irrigation of blood vessels. Surgical Instrument: Vessel Probe Use: To probe Description: Used to access the internal diameter and any blocking within blood vessels, usually between 1-6mm in diameter. Surgical Instrument: Webster Needle Holder Use: To sutur Description: Has a smooth jaw so as to not damage senstive suturing material. Surgical Instrument: Weeder Toungue Blade Use: To retract Description: For retraction of the tounge. Surgical Instrument: Weighted Speculum Use: To retract Description: during vaginal procedure it gives exposure. Surgical Instrument: Woodson Elevator Use: Elevator/Dissector Description: Primarly used for getting out a large amount of irrigation fluids out abdominal cavity HNM Medical has the best high quality surgical instrument sets online. Come see our surgical Instruments Today! This "The 74 various Types of Surgical Instruments" editorial is by Ryan C.
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