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Equipment, Instruments, Supplies & Devices

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Suction Machine

It is a portable suction apparatus used in wards and theatres for aspirating fluids and vomit
from the mouth and airways, and from operation sites by sucking the material through a
catheter into a bottle. The term could also apply to devices which operate from piped
vacuum supplies or bottle gas cylinders but is more commonly used to mean electric suction
units which contain a vacuum pump, bacterial filter, vacuum gauge, trap for moisture (or any
debris accidentally drawn into the mechanism), a reservoir for the aspirated material, and a
suction catheter or nozzle. They may be intended to provide high or low vacuum, and high
and low flow rates. Low vacuum is used for post-operative wound drainage.
The main reservoir is usually a glass bottle with volume marks up the side and sometimes
this has a float valve so that the vacuum is cut off before the bottle becomes full enough to
allow the contents to be drawn into the pipe work of the pumping mechanism. However,
frothing of the contents can sometimes defeat the float valve mechanism.

Electrosurgical Unit
This machine has an escharotics substance, electric current, or hot iron used to destroy
tissue.

Mayo table
Used to hold instruments in place.

Mobile Video Cart

The mobile video cart is equipped with locking brakes and has 4 anti-static rollers. The
trolley has a drawer and three shelves, the upper shelves have a tilt adjustment and used
for supporting the video monitor unit. Included on the trolley is an electrical supply terminal
strip, mounted on the rear of the 2nd shelf (from the top).

Mosquito
used to clamp small blood vessels.

Kelly
used to clamp larger vessels and tissue

Right Angle
used to clamp hard-to-reach vessels and to place sutures behind or around a vessel. A right
angle with a suture attached is called a tie on a passer.

Richardson
used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions.

Army Navy
used to retract shallow or superficial incisions.

Russian Forceps
used to grasp tissue.

Adson pick ups

either smooth: used to grasp delicate tissue; or with teeth: used to grasp the skin.

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

Tissue forcep (short and long)

used for grasping or manipulating tissues.

Mayo Hegar Needle Holder

used to hold needles when suturing.

Knife Holder
used to hold the surgical blades.

Surgical Blade
used to cut body tissue or surgical supplies.

Allis
used to grasp tissue. A Judd-Allis holds intestinal tissue; a Heavy Allis holds breast
tissue.
Babcock
used to grasp delicate tissue (intestine, fallopian tube, and ovary).

Kocher
used to grasp heavy tissue. May also be use as a clamp.

Foerster Sponge Stick

used to grasp sponges.

Backhaus Towel Clips

used to hold towels and drapes in place.

Straight Mayo Scissors

used to cut suture and supplies.

Metzenbaum Scissors
used to cut delicate tissue

Senn Muller Retractor

used to retract skin

Kidney Basin
used to collect body fluids or as a container for various other liquids.

Blade handle (# 3, 4 and 7)

used to hold the blade in place.

Towel clips
used to hold towels and used in draping.

Malleable
used to retract deep wounds; may be bent to various shapes.

Deaver
used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions.