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Name: B.E. Glass retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses: Retracting organs

* This retractor is hand-held

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Name: #10 Blade

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Skin Incision

* Most common blade used

* Fits #3 and #7 knife handles

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Name: #11 Blade

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Puncture the skin, initiate opening of an  

        artery

* Commonly loaded on a #7 handle

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Name: #12 Blade

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Excise tonsils

Name: #15 Blade

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: To cut deeper tissue and sometimes on

         skin

* Can make shallow and presice incisions

* Often used in pediatric and plastic surgery

Name? Category? Uses?

* Note the ridge*

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Name: #20 Blade

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Create larger/deeper incisions, or on heavy

         tissue or bone

* Used with a #4 handle

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Name: #3 Knife handle

Category: Cutting and dissecting

Uses: Hold #10, #11, #12, and #15 blades to make incisions

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Name: #3 Long Knife Handle

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Hold #10, #11, #12, and #15 blades to make incisions

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Name: Balfour Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses: Reatraction of large abdominal wound

* This instrument is self-retaining

* Comes with 2 sets of blades, a shallow set and a deep set

* Comes with a shallow center bladder blade and a deep center bladder blade

* COUNT ALL INTERCHANGEABLE PIECES SEPARATELY- INCLUDING THE WING NUT

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Name: Kelly Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses: Retraction of wound edges

* Found in the major Lap set

Name: Weitlaner Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses: Hold wound edges open

* this instrument is self-retaining

* tips may be sharp or dull

*Always hand to surgeon PRONGS DOWN

Name: Goelet Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses:  Retraction of small, superficial incisions

* Always same shape and size

* This instrument is hand-held

* Lap set contains 2 of these

Define: Retractor

Retractor: Used and held by scrub members in the sterile field to gain exposure of the anatomy the surgeon will be operating on

Name the 6 possible characteristics of a retractor

1) Sharp or Dull

2) Malleable

3) Wide or Narrow

4) Hand-held or Self-Retaining

5) Deep or Superficial

6) Right Angled, Curved or Straight

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Name: Volkman Rake Retractor

Category: Retracting and Exposing

Uses: Superficial retracting of wound edges

* Usually packaged in pairs

* Sharp or dull edges

* 2-6 claws

* Always hand to the surgeon CLAWS DOWN

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Name: Nerve Hoook

Category: Accessory

Uses: Manipulate nerves, untangle suture, manipulate heart valve "leaflets"

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Name: #7 knife Handle

Category: Cutting and Dissecting

Uses: Precision cutting in a confined space or deep wound

* Used with #10, #11, #12, #15 blades