Forceps Instruments

Forceps instruments important in the surgical field to hold and retracts the tissues and muscles, etc Pickups, thumb forceps, and tissue forceps are available in various lengths, with or without teeth, and smooth or serrated jaws.

Russian tissue forceps are used to grasp tissue

Adson pickups are either smooth: used to grasp delicate tissue

or with teeth: used to grasp the skin. Other names: Dura forceps.forceps instruments

Adson pickups are either smooth: used to grasp delicate tissue;

or with teeth: used to grasp the skin.

Other names: Dura forceps.

 DeBakey forceps are used to grasp delicate tissue, particularly in cardiovascular surgery.

Thumb forceps are used to grasp tough tissue (fascia, breast).

Forceps may either have many teeth or a single tooth. Single tooth forceps are also called “rat tooth forceps.”

Check here for the Types of Thumb Forceps

Artery forceps also come under the forceps instruments

Needle holder plays in suturing of the surgical wound, repair, and skin, etc

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