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Equipment and Instruments
•Instruments for grasping, squeezing, or holding tissue or an item such as a sterile gauze
•Some forceps have 2 prongs and a spring handle
– Examples: thumb, tissue, splinter, dressing forceps
•Those provide the proper tension for grasping an object
•Other forceps have serrations, which are sawlike teeth that grasp tissue and prevent is from slipping out of the jaws of the instrument
– Examples: thumb and hemostatic forceps
•Ratchets: toothed clasps on the handle on a forcep
•Ratchets hold the tips securely together and lock them in place
– Examples: Allis tissue forceps, hemostatic forceps
Forceps
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