INSTRUMENTS and SUTURES BKN
Instruments and Sutures 4 Basic and Plastic Trays 4 Needle Drivers 4 Forceps 4 Scissors
Basic Set 4 Needle Holder 4 Scissors 4 Thumb forceps with teeth for grasping tissue
Custom Basic Instrument Tray
Optionals 4 Separate scissors for suture cutting, debridement and dissection (suture scissors, iris scissors and metzenbaums respectIvel (suture scissors, iris scissors and metzenbaums respectively 4 Forceps for clamping (hemostats) 4 Scalpel 4 German middle quality or better, not disposable are recommended 4 For plastic cases use tungsten carbide tipped needle holders
E.D. Plastics Tray
How to use a needle holder 4 Load body of needle at tip of jaws, 1/3 of way from swage and at 90 degree angle 4 Grasp holder with whole hand, no fingers in rings 4 Enter skin at angle of 90 degrees or more away from wound 4 Roll the instrument to give a circular needle track, if you can achieve a wider knot at bottom, this everts the skin
Arm at end of driver, perpendicular and at back 1/3 of needle
Holding driver for plastic closure
Left Handed Webster Needle Driver
Castroviejo needle driver for loops and 8-0
How to use thumb forceps 4 Hold like chop sticks 4 grasp superficial fascia not skin 4 or use one arm like a skin hook
Using forceps
Adson’s and Skin Hook
Sutures, Dissection, Tissue
Castroviejo corneal scissors with angle
How to control scissors for suture cutting 4 Thumb and ring finger in rings, index at fulcrum guides tips 4 For cutting knots on absorbables, slide tips down suture tails to the knot, rotate the tips slightly to avoid cutting it
Scissors control
How to use scissors for undermining 4 curved preferable, tips up 4 dissect bluntly, in plane between superficial and deep fascia
Undermining to relieve tension
No touch option to minimize risk of blood born disease 4 Combined needle holder and suture scissors (Olsen-Hegar) 4 Combined tissue grasping and knot tying forceps (Adsons with teeth and knot tying platform)
Absorbable Sutures
Nonabsorbable Sutures
Tapered and Cutting Needles