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35 Cards in this Set
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Mayo Scissors: - Available straight and curved - Used for soft tissue dissection and cutting (Most bog standard scissors there is, think of a bog standard sandwich, need a bit of mayo) |
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Bone Holding Forceps: - Many types available, this is Fergusson Bone Holding Forceps - Used to secure bone and prevent movement during orthopaedic procedures (Too sharp to put on a bone(r)) |
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Bone cutters: - Many types available, this is Liston bone cutters (Big, industrial and sharp) |
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Rush Pin: - Use being replaced by arthrodesis and K wire (You can't bend round corners if you're rushing around) |
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Arthrodesis Wire: - A small Steinmann pin with trocar points at both ends (Arthritis hurts both sides of the joint) |
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Steinmann Intramedullary Pin: - Available in various diameters - Trocar (Pointed) end to both ends, possible that might also be threaded |
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Monofilament Wire: - Also referred to as Orthopaedic wire - Used as Cerclage wire (Made from one continuous filament) |
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Wire Twister/Shear Cutter: - Used to twist wire to secure in place and cut ( |
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Sherman Screw: - Screw head either cruciate as this one or single slot |
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Cancellous Screw: - Coarser thread than cortical screw - ASIF Screw head (Longer name so longer pin) |
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Cortical Screw: - Finer thread than Cancellous Screw - ASIF Screw head |
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Kirschner Wire: - Available in various lengths and diameters - One end bayonet then other blunt |
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Venables Plate: - Rectangle plate with round holes |
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Sherman Plate: - Plates narrows between the holes (Sherman the sailor on the wavy sea) |
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Dynamic Compression Plate: - Rectangle plate with oval holes (Compressed circles are shaped like ovals) |
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Olsen Hegar Needle Holders: - Used to hold the needle during suturing and cutting sutures |
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Mayo Needle Holders: - Used to hold needle during suturing (Bog standard needle holders, no cutters or anything fancy) |
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Gillies: - Used for holding needles and cutting sutures - Left and right handed available |
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Metzenbaum Scissors: - Available straight or curved and in different lengths - Used for fine or soft tissue dissection |
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Iris Scissors: - Available straight or curved - Used for ophthalmic surgery - General purpose conjunctival scissors (Very small and pointy, poke your eye out) |
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Cross-action towel clip (Crossed over) |
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Backhaus towel clip (Scratch your back) |
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Chisel: - Bevelled on only one side to allow instrument to sit flush with the bone - Used to "shave" bone |
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Langenbeck retractor: - Hand-held instrument used for temporary retraction of soft tissue (Shaped like an L) |
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Osteotome: - Bevelled on both sides - Used to make precise bone cuts e.g. Excision arthroplasty (Osteo for bone, very large so can affect the bone) |
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Travers Retractor: - A self restraining retractor used to hold back soft tissue (Sounds like Train Track) |
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Periosteal Elevator: - Used to raise the periosteum from bone before plating or drilling |
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Gelpi Retractors: - Self retaining retractors used for muscle and joint retraction |
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Rongeurs: - Used to nibble pieces of bone |
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Hohmann Retractor: - Handheld retractor used for retraction of a joint (Hoh mann, you a hoh with two holes) |
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Doyen Bowel Clamp: - Used for a traumatic clamping of the intestine |
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Babcock Tissue Forceps: - Used to firmly grasp tissues - Don't grab viscera as they are to traumatic (Hey bab, the circle at the end is how wide your brummy boyf's cock is) |
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Allis Tissue Forceps: - Used to firmly grasp tissues - Don't grab viscera as they are too traumatic |
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Halstead Mosquito Artery Forceps: - Available straight or curved - Used for clamping small blood vessels (Small and bitey like an insect) |
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Spencer Wells Artery Forceps: - Used for clamping blood vessels - Available in straight or curved and various lengths (The grooves have wells between them) |