surgical instruments

 Equipments 

Forceps

1. Rampley swab holding forceps

Uses fo cleansing skin with swab.

Used to hold fundus and hartman pouch during cholecystectomy.

2. Doyen cross action towel clip

Used to fix draping towel

Used for fixing cable, suction, tubes

3. Bard parker's handle 

Used for tissue separation, dissection, puncture or cut .

It combined use with surgical blades of varying shapes and sizes. 

4. Spencer wells hemostatic forceps

Used to hold bleeding vessels.

Used to do blunt dissection.

Used to split internal obliques and transversus abdominis during appendectomy.

5. Kocher's hemostatic forceps

Strong forceps for controlling bleeding in surgery with interlocking teeth at the tips.

6. Mosquito hemostatic forceps

Using to hold fine bleeding blood vessels.

7. Lister sinus forceps

Used to hold gauge swab to clean abscess cavity.

8. Allis tissue forceps

Surgical instrument with sharp teeth, used to hold or grasp heavy tissue, grasp fascia and soft tissues such as breast or bowel tissue.

9. Babcock tissue forceps

Used to grasp tissue, frequently used with intestinal and laparotomy to gain a clear view of the operating site.

10. Plain dissecting forceps/ non toothed dissecting forceps

Used to hold blood vessels and nerves while dissecting.

11. Tooth dissecting forceps

Hold skin while skin suturing.

Hold scalp while scalp suturing.

12. Needle holders

Used to hold needle while suturing.

13. Mayo scissors; straight or curved. 

Used in the cutting of fascia. 

Used for cutting body tissues near the surface of a wound. 

14. Heath suture cutting scissorsb; with smooth or toothed/serrated blades. 

Used for suture removal.

To cut sutures on skin and mucus membrane.

Retractor 

15. Morris retractor

Used to retract abdominal wall incisions.

Used to hold incision or wound open.

16. Deaver retractor 

Used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions. 

Used in thoracic and abdominal surgery for holding back muscle, tissue, and bone.

17. Langenbeck retractors

Commonly used within surgical procedures to separate the edges of incision. Used to hold back tissue or organs. 

18. Jolls thyroid retractor

Holdings to aid in exposing the bodies cavities accessed during surgery.

19. Metallic probe 

Used to gauge the depth of a cavity.

Used to assess depth of penetrating injuries.

For example; Used to assess length of sinus.

20. Lahey right angle forceps

Used for blunt dissection and for clamping vessels.

Used for clamping, dissection, or grasping tissue.

21.Desjardins choledocholithotomy forceps

Used to remove stone from common bile duct.

Used to remove stone from kidney, bladder stone.

22. Metallic Bougie

Used to dilate urethra in Urethral stricture.

Used to dilate urethra before cystoscopy.

Used 6o repair Urethral rupture

23. Bakes dilator

Bullet-shaped tip used to dilate and enlarge a duct.

Used in the treatment of stenosis of the urethra. 

24. Doyen intestinal clamp

Used in gut resection and anastomosis.

Used to grasp internal organs, secure bleeders during surgeries. 

25. Suprapubic cystolithotomy forceps

Used in suprapubic cystolithotomy to extract stone from bladder.

26. Red rubber catheter

Used to drain urine.

Used to measure amount of residual volume of urine.