This document lists and describes various surgical instruments used in operating rooms. It includes instruments for cutting such as scalpels, scissors, and rongeurs. It also includes instruments for scraping and smoothing such as curettes, elevators, and rasps. Additionally, it lists instruments used for exerting force like mallets and saw handles. Each instrument is described along with its common uses and any alternative names.

1. Surgical Instruments in Operating Room
Sharps/Dissectors/Cutting
Sharps are instruments used to cut, dissect,
incise, separate, or excise tissue. They may
have sharp or blunt edges.
They are also known as mechanical cutters.
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2. Chisel/Bone
USE: To sculpt bone; to aid in cutting a bone graft;
to use with a mallet
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3. Curette/Adenoid
USE: To scrape remnants of adenoid tissue
Also known as: Barnhill curette, Stubbs
curette, Vogel curette
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4. Curette/Bone
To scrape bone; to debride tissue; to scoop tissue
out of small areas; to
scoop cancellous bone for grafting.
Also known as: Brun Curette
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5. Curette/Ear
To scrape inner ear (i.e., stapes); to
remove debris from ear canal.
Also known as: Billeau curette, Buck
curette, ear loop, Shapleigh curette.
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6. Curette/Uterine
To scrape endometrial lining of uterus; to
roughen up tissue in a nonhealing
wound to enhance secondary closure.
Also known as: Heaney uterine curette
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7. Curette/Uterine, Large
To scrape uterine cavity (usually
postpregnancy uterus).
Also known as: Hunter curette, Hunter
uterine curette.
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8. Cutter/Bone
To cut bone and cartilage.
Also known as: Bone biter, Liston
bone cutting forceps, rib shears
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9. Elevator/Freer
To take tissue off cartilage (e.g., nasal septum); to scrape plaque
from large arteries in cardiovascular procedures; to lift
periosteum from bone in orthopedic procedures; to press small
balls of bone wax onto bone edges for hemostasis in
neurosurgery procedures.
Also known as: Cottle elevator, Pierce elevator.
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10. Elevator/Periosteal
To scrape and remove periosteum from bone in preparation for a
bone Incision. Also known as: Chandler elevator, Cobb elevator,
converse elevator, Farabeuf elevator, Joseph elevator, key
elevator, Langenbeck elevator, Penfield elevator,
Sayre elevator.
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11. Elevator/Rib
To scrape along ribs to remove tissue and
cartilage.
Also known as: Doyen raspatory, Doyen rib
elevator, rib stripper and elevator.
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12. Elevator/Septum
To elevate and dissect septum during intranasal
procedures; to dissect nerve vessels and
bone in neurosurgical procedures; to use
as a bone wax Tamp.
Also known as: Cottle elevator, Freer elevator
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13. Handle/Scalpel
To accommodate knife blades of many sizes.
Also known as: Cutter, knife, knife handle
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14. Knife/Ear
To create a fine puncture in the tympanic
membrane for ear drainage in
Myringotomy.
Also known as: Myringotomy knife, Sexton
ear knife
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15. Mallet
To exert force on an object (e.g., to drive a nail into a
bone); to use a chisel or osteotome as a guide.
Also known as: Cooper mallet, Cottle mallet, Gerzog
mallet, hammer, Lucae mallet, Mead
mallet, Peck mallet
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16. Osteotome/Lambotte
To score or place cuts in bone
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17. To smooth a rough bone surface or to evacuate
medullary canals in preparation for prosthesis insertion.
Also known as: Aufricht rasp, Cottle rasp, Fomon rasp,
Lewis rasp, Maltz rasp, Putti rasp, Wiener rasp
Rasp
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18. To mechanically smooth nasal cartilage
and bone during septoplasty.
Also known as: Wiener antral rasp
Rasp/Nasal, Wiener
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19. Rongeur/Double-Action
To cut through small segments of bone.
Also known as: Beyer rongeur, Jansen-Zaufel
rongeur, Leksell rongeur, Luer-Echlin rongeur,
Ruskin rongeur, Stille rongeur
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20. Rongeur/Kerrison
To remove delicate bones during
neurosurgery (e.g., laminectomy) and
orthopedic procedures.
Also known as: Up bite, down bite
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21. Rongeur/Lempert
To remove bone; to remove soft tissue
from around bone.
Also known as: Juers-Lempert rongeur
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22. Rongeur/Rib
To cut ribs. Also known as: Bethune rongeur,
Coryllos rongeur, rib cutter, rib shears, Sauerbruch
rongeur
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23. Saw/Gigli, Handle for
To hold Gigli saw blade for controlled
severing of bone during amputation
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24. Saw/Gigli, Wire Blade for
To cut small and large bone
during amputation. As known as:
Amputation wire.
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25. Scissors/Bandage
To cut bandages and dressings; to open uterus
during a C-section. Also known as: Esmarch
scissors, Lister scissors, tape scissors
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26. Scissors/Castroviejo
To cut tissue during fine (e.g., microvascular)
dissection; to extend an
arterotomy or venotomy. Also known as:
Microscissors
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27. Scissors/Circumflex
To cut vascular tissue during open heart
procedure; to extend a coronary
Artery. Also known as: Beall scissors, Mills
scissors
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28. Scissors/Iris
To cut delicate tissue during plastic, hand,
and minor vascular surgery.
Also known as: Plastic scissors
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29. Scissors/Jansen
To cut nasal septum cartilage.
Also known as: Knight angular
scissors
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30. Scissors/Mayo
To cut thick or tough tissue (e.g.,
fascia); to cut suture. Also known as:
Doctor scissors, suture scissors
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31. To dissect tissue; to cut suture.
Also known as: Deaver scissors, suture
scissors
Scissors/Mayo-Sims
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32. Scissors/Metzenbaum
To dissect soft tissue.
Also known as: Metz, tissue
scissors
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33. Scissors/Potts
To extend venotomy or arteriotomy
incisions. Also known as: Potts-Smith,
vascular scissors
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34. Scissors/Strully
To cut fine tissue during abdominal surgery,
neurosurgery, and vascular
Surgery. Also known as: Dissecting scissors,
neurological scissors
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35. To cut suture material.
Also known as: Nurses scissors, operating
scissors
Scissors/Suture
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36. Scissors/Tenotomy
To dissect fine tissue (e.g., in hand surgery); to
penetrate tissue; to spread
and cut tissue. Also known as: Jameson
Reynolds scissors, Stevens scissors.
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37. Scissors/Wire-Cutting
To cut wire sutures. Also known as: Wire cutters
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