Equipment

- Alginate Dressings

- Amnihook

- Bakri Balloon

- Blood Salvage Drain

- CAM Boot

- Chlorhexidine

- Chromic suture

- Diathermy

- Doyen Retractor

- Dressings

- Green Armytage Forceps

- Hydrocolloid Dressings

- Hydrogel Dressing

- Jackson-Pratt Drain

- Jelonet Dressing

- Kaltostat

- Kielands Forceps

- Laryngoscopes

- Littlewood Forceps

- Monocryl Suture

- Neville-Barns Forceps

- Nylon Suture

- Obstetric Forceps

- Penrose Drain

- PDS

- Redivac Drain

- SAM Splint

- Slit Lamp

- Surgical Drains

- Surgical Forceps

- Surgical Suction

- Surgical Retractors

- Suture Material

- Suture Needles

- Tonopen

- VAC Dressing

- Vaginal Speculums

- Vicryl Suture

- Weitlaner Retractor

- Wrigleys Forceps

Surgical Equipment

- Grasping (Surgical Forceps)

- Clamping

- Occlude tubular structure or hold bone

- Locking mechanism, usually a ratchet

- Short jaws: crush tissue

- Long jaws: atraumatic

- Green Armytage Forceps

- Littlewood Forceps

- Artery forceps

- Mango clamps

- Spongue holding

- Cutting

- Scalpels

- Shape

- Curved blades most common

- Reverse curved blade for cutting sutures

- Straight blades for stab incisions

- Size

- According to thickness of tissue & size of incision

- Handle

- 3 = medium

- 4 = large

- Blade

- #10: small lesions

- #15: scope portals

- #22: long skin incisions

- Grips

- Overhand grip

- Optimum dexterity

- Usually for larger scalpel handles for long incisions or for thick tissue

- Pencil grip

- Used for very fine work

- Incision depth controlled by smooth drawing of blade over surface with constant firm downward pressure

- Entire length of blade should be used for cutting

- Blade never handled with fingers, always transferred in a sharps tray

- Scissors

- Premium quality = tungsten blades, usually gold handles

- Grips

- Ring finger & thumb in rings of handles

- Middle finger supports top blade

- Index fingers steadies

- Angled Potts scissors: for opening blood vessels

- Nibblers: bone cutting

- Osteotome: bone cutting

- Bone saw: bone cutting

- Dermatome: skin grafts

- Curette: cutting tissue from wound/beds

- Retracting

- Doyen Retractor

- Weitlaner Retractor

- Vaginal Speculums