Forceps
Surgical forceps may be broadly divided into two categories;
1.Thumb forceps
Thumb forceps also known as gripping forceps, non-locking forceps or pinning forceps.
Thumb forceps are spring forceps used by compression between thumb and forefinger and are used for grasping, holding or manipulating body tissue.
2. Ring forceps
Also called hemostats, hemostatic forceps and locking forceps.
Locking forceps used for clamps and are used to securely hold tissue.
When they are used to control blood flow, called hemostats forceps.
Hinged forceps may come with or without a "lock" for clamping.
Types of Surgical Forceps
Two types ; locking and non locking forceps.
Locking (artery forceps), Non locking (thumb forceps, pick-ups)
Artery forceps belong to a group of surgical instruments called hemostats.
Artery forceps/ Haemeostatic forceps (locking mechanism)
They are available in straight and curved.
1. Spencer wells hemostatic forceps
Available in curved, straight.
Used to hold bleeding vessels.
Used to do blunt dissection.
Used to split internal obliques and transversus abdominis during appendectomy.
2. Kocher's hemostatic forceps
Strong forceps for controlling bleeding in surgery with interlocking teeth at the tips.
3. Mosquito hemostatic forceps
(curved, straight)
Using to hold fine bleeding blood vessels.
Jaw are serrated.
4. Crile Hemostatic Forceps
Straight and curve
5. Adson Artery forceps
6. Cairns artery forceps
7. Cooley artery forceps
9. Debakey artery forceps
10. Debakey bainbridge forceps
11. Dunhill artery forceps
12. Heiss artery forceps
13. Kelly crile artery forceps
14. Lawson tait artery forceps
15. Moynihan forceps
Long shanks and short jaws with full, horizontal serrations. Tips are blunt and used to grasping sections of tissue.
16. Rochester-pean forceps
Available in both straight and curved styles with fully serrated jaws. Used to clamping larger tissue and vessels for hemostasis.
17. 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.
18. Babcock tissue forceps (intestinal tissue holding forceps)
Used to grasp tissue, frequently used with intestinal and laparotomy to gain a clear view of the operating site.
19. Lister sinus forceps
Used to hold gauge swab to clean abscess cavity.
20. Lahey right angle forceps
Used for blunt dissection and for clamping vessels.
Used for clamping, dissection, or grasping tissue.
Others forceps are;
1. Desjardins choledocholithotomy forceps
Used to remove stone from common bile duct.
Used to remove stone from kidney, bladder stone.
2. Suprapubic cystolithotomy forceps
Used in suprapubic cystolithotomy to extract stone from bladder.
3. Speedlock bone reduction forceps
Used to remove and place bone fragments and bony tissues in a required position.
4. Doyen intestinal forceps
Non-crushing forceps commonly used for grasping on large organs such as intestines.
5. Lane twins intestinal forceps (straight, curved)
instrument used for gripping, used to clamp the stomach and rectum during surgery.
6. Lane tissueb (intestinal) holding forceps
Hinged forceps
1. Cheatles forceps
2. Rampley swab holding forceps
Uses fo cleansing skin with swab.
Used to hold fundus and hartman pouch during cholecystectomy.
3. Spongy forceps
Jaw are serrated
Thumb forceps
Thumb forceps are available with a variety of tips such as flat, serrated, cupped, ringed, grooved, diamond dusted or have teeth. The tips may also be straight, curved or angled.
1. Plain dissecting forceps/ non toothed dissecting forceps
Used to hold blood vessels and nerves while dissecting.
2. Plain thumb forceps
Used to hold tissue in place when applying suture.
Used to insert packing into or remove objects from deep cavities.
3. Brown adson thumb forceps
4. Rat tooth thumb tissue forceps
5. Toothed tissue forceps
Used for grapsing and holding tisuue, muscle or skin surrounding wound.
6. Tooth dissecting forceps
Hold skin while skin suturing.
Hold scalp while scalp suturing.
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