Thread by @Daniel_Urologia

🛠️Surgical instruments used in #Urology

It's important to know our instruments, most of them have eponymous names which pay tribute to surgical legends.

Here I will post pictures of instruments that every trainee should know (taken from different books):

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Backhaus or Towel clamp

🇪🇸 Backhaus - Piel y campo.

Foerster or Ring forceps

🇪🇸 Foerster o "Pinza de anillas"

Yankauer suction (yes, not all of them are made from plastic)

🇪🇸 Yankauer

Adson forceps (with and without tooths)

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Adson, con y sin dientes.

*With tooths for grasping skin

Russian Forceps

🇪🇸 Pinzas Rusas

Allis Forceps

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Allis

Babcock Forceps

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Babcock

Kocher Forceps (aka Ochsner; Rochester-Ochsner)

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Kocher

*Only for grasping heavy tissue! (e.g. Fascia)

Randall Forceps (aka stone forceps)

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Randall

*For grasping stones or polyps (e.g. large bladder stones in open surgery)

Kelly clamps

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Kelly

*Hemostatic clamps.
*Very similar to Crile clamps, the difference is basically is the whole surface ir coveres by transversal lines

Crile clamps

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Crile

Mosquito (Halsted Mosquito)

🇪🇸 Mosquito

*William Halsted was one of the 4 founders of Johns Hopkins Medicine (together with Welch, Osler and Kelly).

hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/…

Mixter (aka Right angle)

🇪🇸 Angulo recto

*Usefull for ligatures, clamping pedicles or grasping tissue.

Doyen intestinal forceps (aka Mayo-Robson)

🇪🇸 Pinzas de Doyen / Clamps intestinales

Mayo scissors (curved and straigth)

🇪🇸 Tijeras de Mayo (curvas y rectas)

*For cutting hard tissue, sutures, drains, etc..

Metzenbaum scissors

🇪🇸 Tijeras de Metzenbaum ("Metzen")

Lister scissors

🇪🇸 Tijeras de Lister

*Usually in a non-sterile environment, for cutting bandages or drapes

Balfour retractor

🇪🇸Separador de Balfour

Bookwalter retractor

🇪🇸Separador de Bookwalter

Omni-tract retractor

🇪🇸Separador Omni-tract

Weitlaner retractor (aka Beckmann)

🇪🇸 Separador de Weitlaner (o Beckmann)

*Very useful in perineal surgery (e.g. Uretrhal surgery)

Hasson retractor (aka "S" retractor)

🇪🇸Separador de Hasson o separador de "S"

Cushing vein retractor

*Though there are many retractors for retraxting vessels, this is just one of them, and they're all very similar.

Deaver retractor

🇪🇸Separador Deaver

**to be continued...

https://twitter.com/Daniel_Urologia/status/1590414245740843008?t=ICxyTw5z46sX0EesEgcUcQ&s=19

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