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Surgical Equipment

Scalpel Blades

10 - General use
11 - Pointed, for arteriotomy
15 - Smaller minor ops
22 - Big mother
23 - Curved

 

Scissors

 

  • Mayo's: curved dissecting scissors
  • McIndoe
  • Pott's (for arteriotomy)
  • Metzenbaum's 
  • Stitch cutter

 

 

Clips

 

  • Mosquito
  • Dunhill
  • Roberts (big ones)
  • Spencer-Wells
  • Littlewood's clips *pinch

 

 

Forceps

  • DeBakey's
  • McIndoe's
  • Babcock's

 

 

Retractors

 

  • West self-retaining
  • Travers
  • Norfolk & Norwich - Big self-retaining
  • Langenbeck
  • Devers retractor
  • Senn retractor (cat's paw)
  • Hohmann's
  • Finochetto (cardiac)

 

 

 

Laparoscopic / Thoracoscopic

 

  • Marylands: pointed tip / Kellys
  • Yohan's: square tip
  • Hook diathermy

 

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