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53 Cards in this Set
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Surgical Songes
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Soft
Lint Free Contain radiopaque strip |
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Mayo Sponges
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Largest sponges
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Laparotomy Sponges
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Laps, Tapes, or Packs
Five per package |
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Neurosurgical sponges
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Patties or Cottonoids
Ten per package |
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Tonsil Sponges
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Cotton-filled gauzes with a string attached.
Packages of five |
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Kitner Dissecting Sponges
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Small rolls of cotton tape
Used to aid the surgeon in blunt dissection of tissues. Always loaded onto a clamp. |
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Baby Labs
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Appendix Tapes
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Steri Strip Tape
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Included with Some Transparent Film Dressings to further reinforce
Subcuticular closure. |
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Transparent Film Dressings
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Op-site, Ensure or Bioclusive, Tegaderm
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Liquid Collodion
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Type of liquid chemical dressing
Forms a seall over a small incision. Flammable, eather based. |
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Three-layer Dressings
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Inner layer= Telfa, nonadherent easy removal
Intermediate layer Outer layer |
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Montgomery Straps
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Looks like corset
Used for wounds that require frequent dressing changes. |
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Stent Dressings
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Wounds that are difficult to dress
Face, Neck, Nose |
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Latex Allergies
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Use Teflon or silicone catheters instead
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Urethral Catheters
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Designed for emptying urinary bladder.
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Nonretaining Urinary Catheters
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Robinson (single-eyed catheters)
Coude (an angled-tip catheter for maneuvering around obstructions, i.e.enlarged prostate) |
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Stricture
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Can't go through a lumen
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Retaining Catheter
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Foley balloon-tipped catheter
balloon inflated with sterile water |
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Three-way foley
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1 inlet for irrigation
1 inlet for balloon inflation 1 outlet for drainage of urine or irrigating fluid 30cc balloon Maintains hemostasis after transurthral prostatectomy Maintains pressure against removal area |
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Pezzer mushroom tip
Malecot four-wing tip catheters |
Rely on shape for self-retention
Frequently used for suprapubic bladder drainage |
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Ureteral Catheres
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Smaller in diameter
Longer that urethral catheters Made of woven silk,nylon,or plastic materials |
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Indwelling IV Catheters
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Used for the infusion of essential nutrients into the bloodstream.
Inserted in larger veins ( right subclavian,internal or external jugular) |
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Indwelling Catheters
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Broviac
Hickman, infusion of chemotherapeutic agents, blood or blood products Groshong |
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Double lumen catheters
(Picc or Central Line) |
Used for nutrient infusion, as well as pharmacological agents.
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Tenckhoff Catheters
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Inserted into the peritoneal cavity through abdominal wall.
Chemotherpeutic agents, abdominal tumors |
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Swan-Ganz Catheter
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Used within pulmonary artery, to monitor pressure.
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Intravascular Catheters
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May be used to deliver special "coils" to seal cerbral aneurysms or arterivenous malformations, thwarting the need for caniotomy.
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Balloon Tipped Fogarty Catheters
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Used to remove obstructions within the lumens of arteries, veins or ducts.
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Fogarty Biliary Catheter
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Is inserted into the biliary system for the removal of gall stones.
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Fogarty Arterial Embolectomy Catheter
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Smaller and shorter than biliary catheter, and is inserted into an artery after cutdown to remove an obstruting blood clot.
Cutdown= Surgical opening into an artery. |
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Cholangiogram Catheters
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Inserted into the common bile duct for injection of contrast media under X-ray so that calculi can be outlined.
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Nasogastric sump Tubes
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Inserted through the nose and placed into the stomach, for decompressing during surgery so surgical site is unobstructed.
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Endotracheal Tubes
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Maintain the airway in an unconscious patient and for the administration of anesthetic gases and maintain airway during the anesthesia period.
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Chest Tubes
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Treat pneumothorax and after thoracic surgery to evacuate fluid and air form the pleural space.
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Drains
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Used for evacuation of air and/or fluids from a surgical wound.
Can also eliminate dead spaces between tissue layers |
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Passive Drains
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Allow fluids to flow from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure, due to fluid accumulation within the wound.
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Penrose Drains
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Are passive drains made from latex. Moistened with saline before placement.
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T-tubes
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Placed within the biliary system and are used to drain bile afer procedures performed on the common bile duct.
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Jackson Pratt and Hemovac
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Nonpassive drains. Create a consistent vacuum manually.
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Arterial or venous needle/cannula
Tooney |
Needle to introduce a plastic indwelling catheter into a vessel.
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Arterial needle/cannula assemblies
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Used to obtain arterial blood gases or are attached to a line leading to transducer to monitor arterial blood pressure.
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Intravenouss cannula/needle assemblies
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(Angio Cath) are attched to IV lines for the introduction of fluids and/ or medications into the patient's system.
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Arterial needles
(Potts-Cournand needle/cannula) |
Used to introduce diagnostic or angioplasty guiding catheters over guiding wires into the arterial system.
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Dorsey cannulated needle
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For biopsy of cerebral tissue through a burr hole.
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Chiba biopsy needles
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Boipsy of lung tissue, through the chest wall.
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Flanklin-Silverman cannulated biopsy needle
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"Trap door", Tip for biopsy of the liver and other internal organs.
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Biopsy needles attached to syringes
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Used to aspirate fluid from a cyst or abscess.
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Insulin syringes
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Calculated in units
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Tuberculin syringes
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Calculated in tenths or hundreths of a cubic centimeter.
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Standard Syringes
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Vary in size
3-60 cc's of fluid |
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10cc syringe
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Most common used
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Tuberculin
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Up to 1cc of fluid.
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Asepto syringe (bulb syringe)
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Holds approximately 120cc.
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