Mayo Dissecting Scissors

• Heavy 
• Used for cutting tough tissue
• Straigth or curved
• Blunt or Sharp

Metzenbaum Dissecting Scissors

• Thin and light weight
• Used for cutting delicate tissue 
• Curved or straight 
• Sharp or blunt 

Littauer Suture Scissors 

Lister Bandage Scissors 

• Cut bandage material 

Iris Scissors

• Very small and light weight
• Used to cut very delicate tissue 
• Can be curved or staight
• Sharp or blunt

Halstead Mosquito Hemostatic Forceps

• Small and lightweight
• Serrations extend entire length of jaw
• Used to occlude small blood vessels 
• May be straight or curved 

Kelly Hemostatic Forceps

• Medium in size
• Serrations go half way
• Used to occlude medium vessels or small tissue masses

Crile Hemostatic forceps

• Medium in size
• Serrations extend entire length of jaw
• Used to occlude medium vessels or small tissue masses
• Only curved crile in class

Rochester Pean Hemostatic Forceps

• Large in size
• Serrations extend entire length of jaw
• Used to clamp large tissue masses and large blood vessels
• May be straight or curved

Rochester Carmalt Hemostatic Forceps

• Large
• Checker board/ waffle tips
• Provide traction and crushing
• Straight or curved
• Common in OVH

Rochester Ochsner Hemostatic Forceps 

• Large in size
• Similar to pean but have intergrating teeth
• Aid in grasping tissue
• May be straight or curved

Furguson Angiotribe

• Crushing jaws
• Used for tissue that will not be viable
• Also to make the uterine stump
• Straight or curved

Olsen Hagar Needle Holders

• They have built in scissors 

Mayo Hegar Needle Holders

• Common
• No scissors

Adson Dessing Thumb Forceps

• No teeth
• Used to handle dressings

1x2 or Rat tooth thumb forceps

• Name based on size
• Used to grasp tissue

Adson Brown Thumb Forceps

• Two parallel rows of teeth
• Used to manipulate tissue

Allis tissue forceps

• May be 3x4 or 4x5 style
• Used to grasp tough tissue or tissue being removed

U.S. Army Navy Hand Held Retractor

• Double ended
• Retracts tissue 

Snook Ovariohysterectomy Hook

• Used to expose the horn of the uterus

Gelpi Self Retaining Retractor 

• Sharp pointed tips
• Used to retract tissue

Weitlaner Self Retaining Retractor 

• Used to retract tissue 

Balfour Self Retaining Retractor 

• Retracts both laterally and cranially 

Backhaus Towel Clamp

• Penetrating
• Holds drape to patient

Roeder Towel Clamp 

• Balls on tips
• Prevents deep tissue penetration

Jones Towel Clamp

• Delicate and light weight
• Squeeze handle 
• Holds towel to patient

Bone curette

• Used to shape and scrape bone
• Used to collect bone graft

• Also known as Vicryl
• Absorbable 

• Absorbable 
• Made from sheep small intestine 

• Non-absorbable 
• Cannot be used on birds

• Non-absorbable

• Organic
• very strong
• Non-absorbable

• Very small
• Used in delicate surgery

• Used for internal suturing 

• Used for large animal and thinker external suturing 

Presoak:

In distilled water or water w/ specific instrument detergent

Decontamination: 

Manual cleaning to remove debris

Ultrasonic:

Uses vibration and enzymes to deep clean 

Instrument Milk: 

Lubricates instrument