Surgical Instruments
| Medical Definition: |
Hand-held tools or implements used by health professionals for the performance of surgical tasks. |
| Guide Notes: |
GEN or unspecified; prefer /instrum with specialty or with surg technique; differentiate from SURGICAL EQUIPMENT on basis of size (instruments are holdable in the hand); surg instrum left in the operative field: coord IM with FOREIGN BODIES (IM) |
| Also Called: |
Clips, Tantalum,Forceps,Speculum,Surgical Plugs,Trocar,Clips,Valves, Surgical,Surgical Scissors,Surgical Clamps,Surgical Clips,Surgical Hooks |
Surgical Instruments Categories.
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Obstetrical Forceps - Surgical instrument designed to extract the newborn by the head from the maternal passages without injury to it or the mother. |
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Surgical Staplers - Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995) |
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