The document discusses various types of surgical equipment including needles, meshes, staples, forceps, blades, retractors, scissors, catheters, and tubes. It describes the uses and characteristics of different types of surgical needles, meshes commonly used for hernia repair and stress urinary incontinence, and the advantages of surgical staples over sutures. It also provides details about various forceps, blades, and retractors as well as their purposes. Scissors are discussed and key types identified. Catheters like Foley catheters and nasogastric tubes and their uses are outlined. The document concludes with multiple choice questions about the surgical equipment.

1. Shrikant Sir

2. Surgical equipment's
Surgical needle
 Initially stainless steel needles were being used.
 Now high nickel stainless steel is used. It gives better resistance to bending and
breakage
Types of needles :

3. Round bodied
minimise the tissue trauma and used for suturing peritoneum, abdominal
viscera, myocardium etc.
Cutting needle
Have two opposing cutting edges
Designed to cut through tough difficult to penetrate structures
Used in plastic surgery, especially of the face

4. Reverse cutting needle
Designed with cutting edge on the
outer convex side
For skin, oral mucosa,
tendon sheaths
Blunt needles
To dissect to friable tissue rather than
cutting through it
For suturing liver and kidney

5. Surgical meshes

6. Surgical mesh is a woven fabric used for chest wall reconstruction,
strengthening tissues, provide support for internal organs, and to treat surgical
or traumatic wounds.
The most common types of surgical meshes are hernia mesh, stress urinary
incontinence slings and mesh for treating prolapse.
Titanium mesh has been used in some back surgeries
As with any surgical implant, some complications can occur, including
infection, inflammation, tissue damage, and septic shock.

7. Surgical Staples

8. Surgical staples are specialized staples used in surgery in place of suture to
close skin wound.
Basic principles
Preservation of adequate tissue vascularization
Evading of tissue tension
Hemostasis
Advantages
Less tissue reaction
Accelerated wound healing
Efficiency
Less anaesthesia and intra operative time

9. Curette for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris
in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure

10. Forceps, Dissecting
Grasping/holding. Usually used in skin closure or small wounds

11. Forceps, Tissue
Grasping/holding tissue
Allies Tissue Forceps
Teethed Forceps

12. Penetrating towel clamp
Used to secure towels or reduce bone fragments

13. DeBakey forceps
 grasping/holding
 Non-toothed dissecting forceps designed for use on blood vessels,
organs, or delicate tissue

14. Hemostatic forceps
Kelly forceps
Kocher forceps
Mosquito forceps

15. Surgical Blade – Cutting
Lancet (scalpel)/ Bistoury
Retractor- Surgical instrument used to separate
the edges of a surgical incision/wound or to
hold away certain organs and tissues

16. Scissors – CUTTING
 Curved and Straight
 Curved most commonly used
 Nelson Scissor- Short and Thinner Blade
 Macindoe Scissors- Length 7 inch and Curved
 Mayo's Scissors- Most popular short scissor
 Suture Cutting Scissors- Curved cutting ends

17.  In urology, a Foley catheter is a flexible tube that a clinician passes
through the urethra and into the bladder to drain urine.
 Nasogastric (Ryles) Tubes.- It is used for short- or medium-term
nutritional support, and also for aspiration of stomach contents

18. 1. Curved Long Scissors -
(a) Nelson (b) Mcindoe
(c) Mayo (d) None
2. Forceps used for the
(a) Suturing (b) Remove Gases
(c) Cutting (d) Holding Tissue
3. Hemostatic Forceps
(a) Kelly forceps (b) Kocher forceps
(c) Mosquito forceps (d) All
4. Name of teethed forceps
(a) Kelly forceps (b) Kocher forceps
(c) Mosquito forceps (d) Allies forceps

19. 5. Surgical Blade also known as
(a) scalpel (b) Lancet
(c) Bistoury (d) All
6. Surgical instrument used to separate the edges of a surgical
incision/wound or to hold away certain organs and tissues
(a) Retractor (b) Forceps
(c) Lancet (d) Scissors
7. Folyes Catheter used in
(a) Neurology (b) Cardiology (c) Urology (d) None
8. used during Oral Drug Poisoning
(a) Kelly forceps (b) Kocher forceps
(c) Catheter (d) Ryles tube