Definition and use of care Forceps
Care clips are widely used by medical staff in hospitals but also by individuals at home.
Precision tools responsible for gripping tissue or foreign bodies, there are as many types and configurations of forceps as there are medical tasks to be performed.
However, we can distinguish between routine care requiring simple and effective adapted instruments from surgical care during which the surgeon's intervention requires precision equipment.
Routine care
In everyday life, people can suffer from small ailments that some call small ailments requiring the use of very simple but very effective care forceps to relieve the patient.
Thus the Feichenfield splinter forceps consist of 2 stainless steel rods and allow the extraction of splinters.
Small insect stings or small foreign bodies located under the skin.
Children are very often victims of suffocation caused by swallowing objects to play (dice, small marbles) or food that gets stuck in the throat such as large bites not chewed enough or peanuts.
The emergency instrument to clear the respiratory tract which is commonly used is called Magill forceps, a very long stainless steel gripping forceps (24 cm). When placing stitches on the skin, the use of a stainless steel Mayo Hegar needle holder is commonly practiced.
ENT surgical instruments set are widely used in ENT operations. Specially, the TROELTSCH ENT forceps with inclined blades perfectly suited to remove wax plugs in the ears.
Surgical interventions
Halstead Dissecting Forceps and Care Forceps made of welded blades are classic instruments for traditional surgery.
Adson's forceps are also used on fabrics that are not too fragile.
With or without claws to better grasp the tissue, these forceps are commonly used by surgeons during operations.
During an operation, bleeding may occur. In this case, the practitioner uses Péan forceps with large foam jaws, the primary function of which is hemostasis.
He can also use the Péan Murphy Forceps allowing, in addition to hemostasis, to place a compress in the right place.
The latter has 2 foam jaws with interiors with ridges perpendicular to the axis so as not to damage neighboring tissues during an intervention.
To place the dressings in the body, the Longuette straight or inclined dressing pliers which can reach a length of half a meter is the ideal tool.
Among special applications, the forceps of Pozzi Palmer are used for the grasping of the cervix.
The long Douay forceps are widely used in gynecology.
Mention may also be made of the straight Kocher forceps equipped with serrated jaws with or without gripping claws used in traumatology and which can exert strong stresses on the tissues.
Finally, we should point out the Debakey forceps, which is also widely used for making stitches and dissections.
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