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Scissors can be used for 5 things |
sharp cutting, Cutting tissue, Cutting suture material, blunt dissection, dissecting tissue, |
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Scissors are characterized by 4 things |
Shape of blade, shape of tip, type of edge, object to cut
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Scalpel handles come in two sizes and are used for |
No. 3 used for small animal surgery
No.4 used for large animal surgery
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Scalpel blades No. 10-15 are used for |
used for small animal |
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Scalpel blades No. 10 is used for |
incise skin |
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Scalpel blades No. 11 is used for |
severing ligaments |
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Scalpel blades No. 12 is used for |
Lancing absecess |
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Scalpel blades No. 15 is used for |
Small precise curved incisions |
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Electroscalpel Unit are used for |
cutting and cauterizing |
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Advantages of using a Electroscalpel |
Minimizes bleeding |
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disadvantages of using a Electroscalpel |
Contacts more tissue so healing may be delayed |
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What are the dangers of using a Electroscalpel |
explosive around anesthetics flammable around Adhesive agents |
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Why are there curved blades in scissors? |
maneuvering and offers visibility |
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Straight scissor blades have what advantages .. |
great mechanical |
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grasp, manipulate, or extract |
Forcepts are used to |
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Thumb forcepts are used to are look like |
grasp tissue tweezers |
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What instrument has serrations that can be transverse, longitudinal, diagonal or a combination |
Hemostatic forceps |
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Rochester- Ochsner hemostatic forceps are used |
Are used to clamp, crush ovarian and uterine pedicles |
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Towel forcepts have two sizes |
3 1/2 inch 5 1/2 inch |
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Retractors are used to.. To help ....
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Retract tissue improve exposure to the surgical site |
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Backhaus towel clamps are used for |
securing drapes to the skin |
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Rat tooth forceps are used for |
holding dense fibrous tissue |
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Halstead Mosquito hemostatic forceps are used for |
clamping small vessels |
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Mayo scissors are used in and have three types of these |
general operating procedures
tips |
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Intestinal hemostatic forceps are used to |
occlude bowel to prevent spillage of contents during intestinal surgery |
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What are the clamps that have balls called |
Roeder towel clamps |
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What are the clamps that have no balls called |
Backhaus towel clamps |
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Retractors have two options for handling methods |
hand held self retaining with a locking mechanism |
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Army Navys Retractors are used in |
Small to medium operating site
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Army Navys Retractors are held by this and used for |
Hand retracting large muscle mass |
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Senn retractor are held by this and are used for |
Hand retracting large muscle mass |
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Gelpi retractors are used in these sites and are held apart by a |
Med-lg operating site Locking mechanism
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Gelpi retractors are used for |
Perineral area of the spinal muscle |
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Weitlander retractors are used for and have a |
Spinal muscle retractor
locking mechansm
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Balfour retractor are and have this |
Abdominal retractors
Locking mechanism |
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Olsen-Hegar needle holders are used for |
interrupted sutures (individual) |
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Metzenbaum scissors are used to
come in two shapes |
cut deep delicate tissue
Curved or straight |
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Allis tissue forceps are used for |
grasping with a lock, holds fibrous tissue securely |
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Straight Littauer Suture Scissors are used to |
remove suture |
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Snook overiectomy spay hook is used to |
retrieve the uterine horns in ovariohysterectomy surgery |
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Rochester-Carmalt-forceps are used to and come in 3 styles |
clamp, crush overian and uterine pedicles
Heavy, curved or straight |
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Scalpel handles are used to |
hold various sized scalpel blades |
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Adson-Brown Forceps have
and are like these |
Small serrations that cause minimal trama in grasping tissue
tweezers |
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Cutting bandage material or tape |
Lister Bandage scissors are used for |
