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Monday, December 18, 2017

Surgical instruments can be generally divided into five classes by function. These classes are:

  1. Cutting instruments and dissecting: scalpels, scissors, saws.
  2. Grasping or holding instruments: smooth [anatomical] and toothed [surgical] forceps, towel clamps, vascular clamps, and organ holders.
  3. Haemostatic instruments: Kocher’s and Billroth’s clamps, hemostatic “mosquito” forceps, atraumatic hemostatic forceps, Deschamp’s needle, Höpfner’s hemostatic forceps.
  4. Retractors:Farabef’s C-shaped laminar hook, blunt-toothed hook, sharp-toothed hook, grooved probe, tamp forceps.
  5. tissue unifying instruments and materials: needle holders, surgical needles, staplers, clips, adhesive tapes.

Instruments used in general surgery are:

References


File:Various scalpels.png - Wikimedia Commons
File:Various scalpels.png - Wikimedia Commons. Source : commons.wikimedia.org


Instruments typically found in a pocket surgical case during the ...
Instruments typically found in a pocket surgical case during the .... Source : www.medicalantiques.com

 
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