The document provides an overview of basic general surgical instruments for final year medical students. It classifies common instruments into cutting, dissecting, viewing, grasping, probing, retracting, suctioning, suturing, and stapling categories. Key details are given about common instruments like Mayo scissors, knife handles, surgical blades, tissue forceps, hemostats, needle holders, and electrosurgical pencils. The presentation emphasizes knowing an instrument's name, uses, description, cautions, and how to answer exam questions about surgical tools.

1. Basic general surgical
instruments

2. Course of general surgical
instruments for final year
medical students
Presented by/
Prof./ Alaa Al-sioty

3.  History Recent Future

4. Classification
 Cutting instruments
 Dissecting instruments
 Viewing instruments
 Grasping and holding instruments
 Probing and dilating instruments
 Retracting and exposing instruments
 Suctioning and aspirating instruments
 Suturing and stapling instruments
 Sets of instruments

5. What to know about any instrument?
 Name(s) of instruments
 Uses
 Description
 Cautions about instruments
 How to answer exams?

6. Basic surgical instruments
 Mayo scissors
 Straight Curved

7. Knife handles

8. Surgical blades

9. Plain Adson tissue forceps(non
toothed forceps)

10. Toothed forceps

11. Towel clip

12. Allis forceps

13. Babcock forceps

14. Kocher forceps

15. Crile forceps (hemostat = clamp =
Kelly)

16. Halstead forceps (mosquito =
hartman)

17. Electrosurgical pencil

18. Crile wood needle holder

19. Other presentations:
 Special surgical instruments
 Maxillofacial instruments
 Laparoscopic instruments
 Vascular instruments
 Cardiothoracic instruments
 Robotic instruments

20. Thanks , to be continued