Freer ElevatorShaped for blunt

dissection and tissue manipulation in small spaces. It is often used with a small ball of bone wax on it's tip, to aide in bone hemostasis, in hard to reach areas.

Gouge

Blade edge of the gouges are not flat, but curved or angled. It is used to scoop soft bone and tissues.

Cobb Elevator

This is a blunt ended instrument. It is used commonly for dissections in orthopedic and spine procedure. It is can be used to retract tissues and scrape bones.

Allis Clamp

The allis clamp has a scissor-like handle and small teeth at the gripping end. It is used for grasping soft tissue.

Needle Holders

This has a scissor like handle, a ratchet-locking mechanism and is used for and holding needles. They are mostly used for holding the lead needle in suturing.

Iris Scissors

These are small, sharp scissors designed for cutting tissue.

Kelly Artery ForcepsArtery Forceps are

instruments designed to handle, grasp or compress tissues or organs, including arteries. These tools can either hold the artery in place or close off the artery, depending on the circumstances. They can lock and are sometimes referred to as clamps. They are characterized by teeth that cover the clamping surface from the tip MOST of the way up the gripping area.

Volkmann Retractor

The end of the volkmann retractor consists of five or six curved finger like extensions with sharp tips. The base is a single handle. The volkmann is a hand held tissue retractor used during surgeries to separate tissues inside of incisions.

Army/Navy Retractor

The army navy is a double ended hand held retractor. The blades are different lengths to be used for incisions of different depths. It is used to hold back tissue during procedures.

Jansen Mouth Gag

This instrument is a self-retaining retractor that has a looped handle and a ratchet lock mechanism and has two curved plates to grasp tissue.

Pituitary GrabbersThese have a trigger pull action. The grabbing end

has a hinged mouth that acts like a jaw and pinches and rips tissue when the handle is squeezed closed.

Beckmann Adson Forceps

These forceps are one of the most basic instruments. It comes with or without teeth and is used to grasp and manipulate tissue.

Allis Clamp

This instrument uses its two small feet to grab and clasp tissue using a ratchet locking mechanism and scissor grips on the long handle.

Pratt T-Shaped Forceps

Standard handle with a locking mechanism. The grips consists of two metal crescents that when squeezed closed come together to form an "O". These are used for tissue grabbing.

Skin Marker

This is a purple pen specialized to writes on skin and tissue. The ink is tough enough to not wash off under betadine during surgery and it is non-permanent so it will not stain clothes.

Assorted Probes/Nerve Hooks

Slender medical instruments used especially for exploration inside of patients. They often have pointed metal tips for pointing and probing as well as minimal tissue manipulation.

Kerrison Rongeur

The kerrison rongeur is used to remove soft bone and tissue. It takes small 'bites’. It comes in various sizes and bite angles. The top portion of the body slides forward to create the cutting surface.

Bone RongeurThese are designed to chip, crack, or cut away

bone and rip through tough tissue such as cartilage. It comes in either single action (one joint) or double action (two moving joints).

Miscellaneous Retractors

These hand held retractors come in all shapes and sizes and are used to hold back tissue so that surgeons can operate on a point of interest without skin and muscle getting in the way.

CuretteThese are slender

instruments whose proximal end is disk or ice cream scoop shaped. They are used for removing excess bone cement and tissues. They come in straight as well as forward and back angled.

Metzenbaum Scissors

These scissors are designed for cutting tissue fibers as well as muscle and other tissues. They are blunt on the end and come in straight and curved.

Mayo ScissorsThese scissors are

used for preparation of soft, cut able surgical supplies like some implants and drapes. They have a wider, duller blade specialized for cutting those things.

Stitch ScissorsThese scissors are

specialized for cutting suture string and are characterized by the curved notch on one of the blades to catch and hold the string in order to cut in the proper place.

Lamina SpreadersThis instrument is used

primarily for distracting space between vertebral bodies and other bony structures. It does that by using a ratchet or spin in lock and wide, flat arms that distribute pressure across a wide surface.

GauzeCotton pads used to absorb fluids (often

blood) from patients or specimens. Also referred to as four by fours.

SuturesSterile, individually

packaged piercing needles of different diameters and points attached to a thread that may be made of various polymers used to sew tissues together. Different threads serve different purposes.

ScalpelThe most basic and essential surgical tool in

any lab. It comes in many sizes, but the standard 3 are size 10, 11, and 15. 10 and 15 are the same shape, but different sizes, and 11 has a shape of its own.

Coband

A self-adhesive dressing used to wrap bandages or conceal parts of a specimen, e.g. the sutured top of a cadaveric foot.

Syringe Tips

Individually sealed, usually sterile hypodermic needle tips of various gauges and lengths which can be attached to syringes.

Beckman Eaton Retractor

A large self-retaining retractor often used in laminectomies to hold back epidermal and muscle tissues. The hands consist of 6 sharp fingers on individually articulating swing arms.

Beckman Adson Retractor

A large self-retaining retractor often used in laminectomies to hold back epidermal and muscle tissue, very similar to a Beckman Eaton retractor, but with 4 fingers per arm.

Cuptooth Laproscopy GrabbersThis instrument looks like a set of jaws with teeth

that move when the scissor triggers are squeezed or released. They are used for grasping and ripping tissue during endoscopic procedures.

Mixter ForcepsA large set of forceps

with a grasping end consisting of two 90 degree turns in order to work around important vessels and organs.

Rotating Rongeur

This is a kerrison rongeur that is specialized with a rotating head that allows for bites at any angle simply by twisting the head shaft.

DeBakey Forceps

These forceps are very similar to the beckman adison forceps with the exception that they are much larger and have a short row of small teeth to aid the grip.

Ball And Socket Clamps

These clamps lock together in order to hold gauze pads or towels so that they can be held onto while absorbing fluids inside of specimens or patients.

Backhaus Towel Clamp

This is another tool used to hold towels and gauze during procedures. It is characterized by two sharp points that lock with the points touching.

Ring Curette

This instrument is designed to scrape and cut tissue off of patients and specimens using sharpened ends designed to slice.

Gall Stone Forceps

These forceps are specialized for grabbing small, rock like substances with it’s open oval shaped tips.

Kidney Clamp

A large set of clamps that are named due to the shape of the tip of the graspers.

Kocher Forceps

Medium sized forceps used to hold tissue, needles and small surgical implants. Characterized by it’s long clasping jaw with teeth that cover the entire ‘bite’ surface.

Bandage Scissors

Serrated scissors with blades at an angle to the handles, useful for cutting drapes and zip-ties, traditionally used for cutting through bandages and coband.

Bone Saw

A hack saw specialized to downsize and cut through sections of specimens and bone.

Rib Cutters

Useful for cutting ribs or other relatively small, porous bones such as fingers or toes.

Osteotomes

Surgical instrument that has a sharp cutting edge used in conjunction with a mallet, often to cleave very hard tissues such as bone.

Surgical Tape

Lightly adhesive tape often used to attach dressings to specimens or hold drapes together.

Mallets

Instruments used in conjunction with osteotomes. Comes in many sizes and shapes for different applications.

Cleaning/Viraguard Spray

This spray is used frequently in the lab due to its ability to clean up blood and various other stains because of enzymes within the solution. Often used on tables and non submergible surfaces.

Chux

Small, absorbent drapes often used to dress patients or specimens to absorb small quantities of blood or other fluids

Viraguard Wipes

General purpose disinfecting wipes, commonly used to clean undraped tables and countertops

BioGone Spray

Sprays are often anti-microbial as well as full of enzymes that target bad smells and are primarily used reduce the intensity of unpleasant smells due to specimen aging and decomp.

DrapesSheets of fiber with one

plastic-coated side. One side of the drape is an off color grey and the other is a “sterile” blue. The grey, non-absorbent plastic side should be faced toward the patient or specimen with the sterile side out.

Mosquito Clamp

A small clamp that is slightly curved and is used to hold delicate tissues or compress bleeding vessels during surgeries.

Senn Retractor

A hand-held retractor often used in hand and foot surgeries, it is characterized by its solid blade end on one side and the forked, curled fingers on the other end.

Gelpi RetractorA self-retaining spreader

used for relatively small surgical sites. This instrument is distinguishable due to the ends of its arms being sharp points to grip tissue.

Cerebellar RetractorA self-retaining

retractor with short prongs used to keep various tissues pulled back. It is special in that its arms have four sharp, hooked fingers per side.

WeitlanerA self-retaining retractor

with short prongs used to keep various tissues pulled back. This is similar to cerebellar retractors, but the main difference is that the weitlaner fingers are blunt and are 3 on one hand and 4 on the other.