#10 Scalpel Blade

Standard for general surgery/linear incisions

Fits #3 Handle

#11 Blade

Stab incisions

Fits #3 Handle

#12 blade

Suture removal; Piglet/lamb castration

Fits #3 handle

#15 blade

Fine linear incisions/Wider stab incisions

Fits #3 handle

3 Point Grip

Linear Incisions

Pencil Grip

Stab Incisions

Metzenbaum Scissors

Long Handles/Short Blades

Used for Fine Tissue Dissection (ex: sub-Q tissues)

Mayo Scissors

Heavy Tissue Dissection (ex: fascia)

Suture Scissors

Adson Forceps

1x2 or 2x3 teeth at the tip

Used to close sub-Q tissues or thin skin

Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder

Holds needle during suture placement

Halsted Mosquito Forceps

Hemostatic forceps used to grasp small vessels for ligation or cauterization

Allis Tissue Forceps

Wide tip with 4x5 or 5x6 dull teeth

Crushing instrument; Can be used to secure cautery tips or suction tubing

Backhaus Towel Clamp

Attach towel to skin

Stevens Tenotomy Scissors

Used in small animal general and ophthamology surgery

Brown Adson Forceps

2 rows of 7 teeth on each tip

Less traumatic than adson forceps

Used to close sub-Q tissues, thin skin, and hollow organs 

Thumb (Rat-Tooth) Forceps

Relatively traumatic - Used to handle thick skin and other substantial tissues

Russian (Bear Paw) Forceps

Relatively atraumatic - Used for handling visceral and somatic tissues other than skin

Debakey Forceps

Two rows of non-aggressive teeth on each tip

Relatively atraumatic - Used for handling delicate tissues (esp. blood vessels)

Dressings Forceps

Cross striations on tip instead of teeth

Used for holding dressings or suture - Never on tissue

Crile Forceps

Jaws are fully cross-striated

Used to grasp small vessels for cauterization or ligation

Kelly Forceps

Cross striated at distal 1/2 of tips

Used to grasp small vessels for cauterization/ligation

Rochester Oschner Forceps

Cross striated jaw with 1x2 teeth at tips

Used to cross clamp vessels or vascular pedicles 

Used to grasp masses or tissues during excision

Rochester Pean Forceps

Cross striated jaws; No teeth at tip (only difference from Rochester Oschner forceps)

Used to grasp large vessels or vascular pedicles 

Rochester Carmault Forceps

Longitudinally striated jaws 

Place longitudinal striations perpendicular to vascular pedicles allows good holding power

Commonly used for canine ovarihysterectomy

Doyen Intestinal Forceps

Long flexible blades with longitudinal or diagonal striations

Used to occlude bowel lumen during resection or enterotomy

Non-crushing

Babcock Forceps

Atraumatic jaws used to grasp bowels or other hollow organs

Non-crushing

Lahey Traction Forceps aka Lahey Thyroid Forceps

Used to grasp and manipulate tissues

Olsen-Hegar Needle Holder

Combined needle driver and scissors