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Instrument name: 8 mm Endoscope
Alternate name: Scope, endoscope
Instrument category: Robotic
Used for: Visualization during robotic surgeries
Specialty commonly used in: Spinal surgeries when an endoscope is needed to visualize procedure
Instrument name: Bailey Rib Approximator
Alternate name: Rib spreader, rib approximator
Instrument category: Retractors
Used for: Reapproximating the ribs
Specialty commonly used in: Thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Bipolar Electrocautery
Alternate name: Bipolar bovie
Instrument category: Energy Devices
Used for: Coagulating tissue
Specialty commonly used in: Neurosurgery, head and neck, vascular, thoracic, and for patients that have a pacemaker or automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD)
Instrument name: Bonney Tissue Forceps
Alternate name: Baker, bone forceps
Instrument category: Forceps
Used for: Grabbing heavy tissue or bone
Specialty commonly used in: Orthopedic surgery
Instrument name: Bookwalter Abdominal Retractor System
Alternate name: None
Used for: Self-retaining retracting that is table-fixed. Can have many different attachments for additional retracting.
Specialty commonly used in: General, gynecologic, and urologic surgery.
Instrument name: Bougie Dilator
Alternate name: Bougie Dilator, Esophageal Dilator, Hurst Dilator, Jackson, Tucker, Maloney
Instrument category: Dilators and Probes
Used for: Dilatation of the esophagus
Specialty commonly used in: General surgery and GI procedures
Instrument name: Bulldog Clamp
Alternate name: Micro Bulldog, Serrefine
Instrument category: Clamps
Used for: Atraumatic grasping and holding of vascular tissue or suture
Specialty commonly used in: Vascular, cardiac, and thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Cannula Assembly
Instrument category: Accessory
Used for: Access to the stomach to place the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube
Specialty commonly used in: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
Instrument name: Circular Stapling Device
Alternate name: Stapler
Instrument category: Staplers and Clips
Used for: Stapling tissue circularly through the rectum
Specialty commonly used in: General surgery
Instrument name: Debakey Forceps
Alternate name: DeBakey Pickup, DeBakey atraumatic, DeBakey vascular
Used for: Grabbing delicate tissue and vascular structures and dissecting soft tissue
Specialty commonly used in: Vascular and thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Doyen Intestinal Forcep
Alternate name: Glassman non-crushing, intestinal clamp, intestinal forcep, non-crushing clamp
Used for: Grasping and holding intestinal or lung tissue without crushing
Specialty commonly used in: General surgery, thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Duodenoscope
Alternate name: Flexible scope
Instrument category: Endoscopic
Used for: Visualization during upper endoscopy
Specialty commonly used in: Gastrointestinal procedures
Instrument name: External Bolster
Used for: Externally securing the placement of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube. This item can come in two different styles and style will be determined by doctor.
Instrument name: Extraction Balloon
Used for: Instilling and extracting during gastrointestinal endoscopy
Instrument name: Fan Retractor
Alternate name: Finger retractor
Instrument category: Laparoscopic
Used for: Holding back abdominal contents and providing exposure to surgical site during laparoscopic surgery
Specialty commonly used in: General and gynecologic laparoscopic surgery
Instrument name: Flushing Catheter
Instrument name: Freidman Bone Rongeur
Alternate name: Synovectomy, Luer-Friedmann, rongeur, Freidman, bone cutter
Instrument category: Bone Instruments
Used for: Cutting bone by grabbing, cutting bone or soft tissue a piece at a time
Specialty commonly used in: General, ortho, neuro, and spine surgery
Instrument name: Gastroscope
Alternate name: Scope, flexible scope
Instrument name: Gelpi Retractor
Alternate name: Zelpi, Gelpi perineal
Used for: Provide exposure to surgical site and is self-retaining
Specialty commonly used in: Orthopedic, neuro, and spine surgery
Instrument name: Harrington Retractor
Alternate name: Sweetheart retractor, splanchnic retractor
Used for: Holding back abdominal contents and providing exposure to surgical site
Specialty commonly used in: General and gynecologic surgery