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What is the purpose of a surgical clamp?
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To control bleeding
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What is the purpose of a surgical grasper?
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To pick up and hold tissue
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What is the purpose of a retractor and name some self retaining retractors?
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To hold back the tissue layer, wheitlaner, beckman, gelpi
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Name the instruments that are under the cutting instrument catergory?
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Knives, scissors, chisels, curettes, rongeurs, osteotomes, powered instruments
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Name the instruments that are under the clamps category?
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Hemostates
occluding clamps |
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Name the instruments that are under the grasper category?
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Forceps
Tenaculum Needle holder |
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What is the purpose of a cutting(dissector) instrument?
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To cut or separate tissue, largest of this catergory is scissors and scalpels(knife handle)
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What are the 2 types of scissors?
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Tissue scissors
Suture scissors |
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Explain what a tissue suture is?
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Used for tissue dissection, curved , and tapered point
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What is the iris scissors and castroveijo used for?
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For delicate ophthalmic surgery
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What are medium size scissors(Metzenbaum) used for?
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Intra-abd surgery
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What is the curved Mayo scissors used for?
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To cut heavy tissue or tough tissue such as fascia
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Explain suture scissors?
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Straight scissors, blunt point
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What is the Metzenbaum scissors used for?
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Dissection of delicate tissues
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Define a chisels and curettes and Osteotomes?
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To sculpt bones
scrape bones shapping or marking bone |
