How many types of retractors are there?

The two basic types of retractors are the hand-held and the self-retaining forms. The hand-held retractors allow an assistant to move tissue out of the way of the surgical instruments and protect the vital structures during the procedure.

What is a Babcock forceps?

Babcock Forceps: A Brief History As atraumatic tissue forceps, they allow the surgeon to manipulate bowel and are often used in bowel anastomosis and cardiothoracic procedures. They are helpful in grasping delicate tissue.

What is Kocher forceps used for?

Kocher Hemostatic Forceps are used to clamp massive tissues and avoid slippage when surgeons try to grip the arteries. These hemostatic forceps are used during general surgeries and applied during specific procedures such as removing thyroid or draining of gallbladder.

What are the different types of surgical retractors?

Self-Retaining Retractors- (Stay open for their own) have a bone screw, or some type of clamp to hold the tissue by itself. These allow the surgeon with two free hands. Retractors fall under the “Retracting and Exposing” orthopedic instruments used in the OR.

What are the different types of forceps used in dissection?

Forceps: Heavy forceps used for holding thick tissue (e.g., fascial closure). DeBakey Forceps: Used for atraumatic tissue grasping during dissection. Russian Forceps: Used for atraumatic tissue grasping during dissection. Tissue Forceps: Non-toothed forceps used for fine handling of tissue and traction during dissection. Adson Forceps: Forceps

What are the different types of bowel clamps?

Bowel Clamps or Intestinal Forceps as they’re also known, are designed to be non-crushing clamps to temporarily occlude the lumen of the bowel. VETisco supply two different types of Bowel Clamps with the main difference being the jaw type.

What kind of instruments are used in dissection?

Forceps: Used for atraumatic tissue grasping during dissection. Tissue Forceps: Non-toothed forceps used for fine handling of tissue and traction during dissection. Adson Forceps: Forceps toothed at the tip used for handling dense tissue, such as in skin closures. CLAMPS Also called locking forceps, these are ratcheted instruments