Week 6: clamps, forceps, or clips
Name: backhaus penetrating towel clip
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for holding towels in place while draping; when grasping tough tissue; and during reduction of small bone fractures
Name: peers non penetrating towel clip
Category: grasping and holding
Use: used for attaching cords, bovie, and suction to the drapes/ field
Name: Edna non penetrating towel clip
Category: grasping/holding
Use: used for attaching cords, bovie, and suction to the drapes/ field
Name: foerster sponge forceps
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: these are used for creating a sponge stick, for grasping tissues such as the lungs, or for removing uterine content
Name: Allis forceps- curved
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for grasping, holding, and retracting slippery dense tissue that is being removed; commonly used for tonsils; for vaginal, Breast, and thyroid tissues; or for grasping bowel during resection
Name: Allis forceps- straight
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: are used for lifting, holding, and retracting slippery, dense tissue that is being removed; tonsils, breast, vaginal, and thyroid tissue; or for grasping bowel during resection
Name: allis- Adair forceps
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for lifting, holding, and retracting slippery dense tissue that is being removed; mainly in OBGYN; A&P repairs; vaginal tissue; heavier tissue; wider in width and more teeth
Name: Babcock basket forceps
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: are used for grasping and encircling delicate structur as ureters, fallopian tubes, bowel, ovaries, and appendix; general and OBGYN procedures
Name: kocher- oshner forceps - curved
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for lifting, holding, and retracting slippery, dense tissue; vaginal tissue; OBGYN; traumatic
Name: kocher- oshner forceps - straight
Category: used for grasping tough, fibrous slippery tissues; such as muscle and fascia; traumatic
Name: Lahey goiter forceps
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used on goiter, thyroid tissue; grasp the strat muscle to pull it up; very traumatic
Name: Pennington forceps
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: are used for grasping tissue and organs during general procedures; intestinal and rectal procedures; grasping the uterine layers during closure of a c-section
Name: Jacob's tennaculum
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: grasping the anterior lip of the cervix for manipulation; commonly used during vaginal procedures such as a D&C or vaginal hysterectomy
Name: Schroeder single tooth tenaculum
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for grasping the anterior lip of the cervix for manipulation; commonly used during vaginal procedures such as a D&C or vaginal hysterectomy
Name: Schroeder double tooth tenaculum
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for grasping the anterior lip of the cervix for manipulation; commonly used during vaginal procedures such as a D&C or vaginal hysterectomy
Name: hulka tenaculum
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used to manipulate the uterus and thereby facilitate visualization of and access to pelvic structures during laporoscopic procedures
Name: Bozeman uterine dressing forceps (big sexy)
Category: grasping/ holding
Use: used for placing vaginal packing in the vagina for vaginal procedures