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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: Avaurd Weighted Speculum
Alternate name: Weighted speculum, Avaurd
Instrument category: Specula
Used for: Retracts the posterior wall of the vagina and provides exposure
Specialty commonly used in: Gynecologic surgery
Instrument name: Balloon Catheter
Alternate name: None
Instrument category: Accessory
Used for: Dilatation, instilling, and extracting during percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Specialty commonly used in: Urologic procedures
Instrument name: Bookwalter Abdominal Retractor System
Instrument category: Retractors
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: Brachytherapy Needle
Used for: Assisting in the implantation of radioactive seed implants of the prostate
Instrument name: Cystoscope
Alternate name: Scope
Used for: Visualization during cystoscopy
Specialty commonly used in: Urologic procedures when visualization is needed
Instrument name: Debakey Clamp
Alternate name: Vascular clamp, atraumatic clamp
Instrument category: Clamps
Used for: Atraumatic grasping and holding of vessels and vascular structures
Specialty commonly used in: Vascular, thoracic, and cardiac surgery
Instrument name: Dilating Guidewire
Alternate name:
Instrument category: Arthroscopic
Used for: Dilatation and identification of the tract during PNL
Instrument name: Ellik Evacuator
Used for: Removes pieces of tissue during urologic surgery
Specialty commonly used in: Urologic surgery
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: Flexible Ureteroscope
Alternate name: Flexible cysto scope
Instrument category: Endoscopic
Used for: Visualization during urologic surgery
Specialty commonly used in: Urologic surgeries
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
Instrument name: Laparoscopic Hook Cautery
Used for: Mobilization and transection of tissue with cauterization
Specialty commonly used in: Laparoscopic surgery for general, gynecologic, urologic, and thoracic
Instrument name: Laser Fiber
Instrument category: Energy Devices
Used for: Delivery of laser to a specific part of the body
Specialty commonly used in: Gynecology, ENT, urologic, and orthopedic surgery
Instrument name: Lithotripsy Probe
Instrument category: Dilators and Probes
Used for: Ultrasonic wave energy and intermittent shockwave to kidney stone
Instrument name: Long Tissue Forcep
Alternate name: Long pickup, long tissue forcep, thumb forcep
Instrument category: Forceps
Used for: Grabbing tissue deep in the cavity
Specialty commonly used in: General, gynecologic, and urologic surgery
Instrument name: Nephroscope
Alternate name: Kidney scope
Used for: Visualization during kidney endoscopy. This type of scope comes in different angles to see different structures in the kidney.
Instrument name: Pollack Catheter
Alternate name: Urethral catheter
Used for: Drainage, dilatation, instilling and extracting during a procedure, also for retrograde pyelograms
Instrument name: Resectoscope Cutting Loop Tip
Used for: Cutting through and removing lining of cavity
Specialty commonly used in: Urologic and gynecologic surgery
Instrument name: Resectoscope Obturator
Used for: Gaining access to a cavity via bluntly passing through orifice