Surgical forceps
A surgical forceps is a special form of forceps in which the jaws interlocking, sharp teeth have. The advantage of this construction is that captured tissue parts are very well fixed and a stronger pull can be exerted without the forceps having to be squeezed very tightly, which prevents tissue crushing. The disadvantage is that easily damaged structures such as blood vessels , nerves or internal organs can be destroyed by the sharp teeth. Anatomical tweezers are more suitable for grasping such structures .
In the simplest form, surgical forceps have three teeth (1x2), two on one side, the third one grips between them from the other. Surgical forceps are manufactured in various lengths and can be straight or with an angled tip. Depending on the shape of the forceps, there are various special versions of surgical forceps:
- Adlerkreutz
- Adson (after Alfred Washington Adson )
- Adson-Brown (after Alfred Washington Adson and James Barrett Brown )
- Bonney
- Brophy
- Cushing
- Duehrssen
- Gerald
- Gillies
- Graefe
- Hudson (after Ewald Hudson)
- Lane
- Micro-Adson (after Alfred Washington Adson)
- Potts-Smith
- Semken
- Silence Barraya
- Taylor
- Waugh
literature
- Wolfgang Schröder, Carsten Krones: Survival Guide Surgery: The first 100 days . Springer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-25178-8 , pp. 228 .
- Margret Liehn, Hannelore Schlautmann: 1x1 of surgical instruments: naming, recognizing, instrumenting . 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-53957-6 , pp. 24-25 .
