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Surgical Instruments 3
Surgical Instrument Quiz 3 Amarillo College
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Health Care
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2009

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Term

Name? Category? Use?

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Definition

Name: Poole Suction, Abdominal Suction

Category: Suctioning and Aspirating

Uses: Suction blood and fluids from surgical field

 

* Is counted as TWO pieces during counts

* Has a guard that protects bowel and intestinal organs

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Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Yankauer Suction Tip, Tonsil Suction Tip

Category: Suctioning and aspirating

Uses: Suction blood and body fluids from chest cavity and throat

 

* Most widely used suction tip

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Pickups with teeth

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: To grasp or pickup soft tissue or boney tissue

 

* This instrument is TRAUMATIC

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Smooth Pickups

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: pick up/ grasp tissue/ items in the surgical wound.

 

* Delicate to heavy

* various sizes

* This instrument is ATRAUMATIC

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Adson Smooth pickups

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: to grasp superficial/ delicate tissue

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Brown-Adson Tissue Forceps, Adson-Brown Tissue Forceps

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: skin closure, often used in plastic or hand surgery for delicate tissues

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Adson with Teeth Pickups

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: grasp superficial tissue, aligns wound edges in skin stapling or steri-strip placement

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Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Debakey Pickups, Vascular Forceps, Debakey Thoracic Tissue Forceps, Debakey Vascular Tissue Forceps

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: Grasp tissue during vascular/ cardiovascular surgery

 

* The "Holy Grail"- ALWAYS have one on your mayo

* Straight or angled varieties

* Various jaw tips

* Various lengths

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

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Definition

Name: Russian Pickups

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: Approximate tissue during wound closure

 

* This instrument is ATRAUMATIC

 

Term

Name? Category? Uses?

(Note: This instrument has serrations and teeth)

 

 

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Definition

Name: Bonney Tissue Forceps, Cowan, Victor Bonney

Category: Grasping and Holding

Uses: Grasping heavy tissue or bone

 

* Lengths: 6.25", 7.75", 9"

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