Surgical forceps one of the important instruments in tissue handling during surgery. The main use of Thumb forceps like grasping, compressing, holding during cutting, and lift the tissues. Clamping surgical forceps commonly called hemostats used to control blood flow during surgery. Hemostats in different sizes with locking handles to handle the fine bleeding arteries and veins. Hemostats used to hold tissue and small bleeder
Needle holders with locking forceps that used to hold a suture needle when installing stitches or closing a surgical incision.
Types of Forceps
Forceps used according to the use and tissue structure.
Soft Tissue Forceps.
Similar to hemostats, these forceps used for holding and retracting soft tissue for longer periods.
Characteristics of forceps include types teeth or ridges at the tip of the jaws to provide a more delicate grip with minimal trauma to the tissue. Ring handles to hold using fingers and box locks to secure the grips, same like hemostatic forceps.
Examples: Backhaus Towel, Allis Intestinal, Babcock Intestinal, Kocher Artery, Mixter Gall Duct, Kantrowitz
Right Angle, and Forester sponge forceps
Thumb Tissue forceps:
Other types of Soft Tissue Forceps which hold using Thumbs
Thumb forceps do not have box locks or ring handles but rather have spring handles which held closed by the thumb and finger pressure. Sometimes this type of forceps referred to as dressing forceps
Forceps when the jaw serrated instrument used to grasp delicate tissue or wound dressing. A heavier version of this type of forceps referred to as thumb tissue forceps used for grasping heavier tissue where the teeth will provide a more secure grasp.
Brown-Adson
Hudson
Dressing
Tissue Forceps with Teeth, Russian, Cushing, and DeBakey
Adson forceps
DeBakey forceps
Bayonet forceps
Jewels forceps
Bonney dissecting forceps
Only two forceps non-toothed and another toothed forceps. The forceps used for dissecting the tissue and to hold the tissue, skin & other viscera.
Toothed forceps used on connective tissue and skin.
Non-toothed forceps used to hold the smooth mucous membrane.
Jewels forceps
The forceps used to hold fine soft structures or layers such as Serosa
Seromuscular layers
Mucosa, etc during anastomosis.
Fine forceps used to control the small bleeding vessels by lifting and clearing away to use other instruments.
Bayonet forceps
Bayonet forceps mainly used in Neurosurgery for stereostatic visualization. It mainly helps the surgeons to keep showing the target tissue betterment of surgery.
DeBakey forceps
DeBakey thumbs forceps used in the dissection of the vessel like veins and artery, categorized as vascular forceps. Fine vascular forceps special use in vascular surgery like cardiac and thoracic to prevent the puncture or damage of the vascular structure.
DeBakey thumbs forceps provide good support to hold the blood vessels without damage to the vessels.
The serration on the instrument designed in a manner to prevent the damages of fine tissues compared to other forceps
Bonney dissecting forceps
Large heavy Bonney forceps used to hold the bone and related structures.