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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: Battery-Powered Drill
Alternate name:
Instrument category: Powered Devices
Used for: Cutting through and creating a hole in the bone with different-sized drill bits
Specialty commonly used in: Orthopedic and spine surgery
Instrument name: Beck Aortic Clamp
Alternate name: DeBakey Beck Aortic
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: 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: Bulldog Clamp
Alternate name: Micro Bulldog, Serrefine
Used for: Atraumatic grasping and holding of vascular tissue or suture
Specialty commonly used in: Vascular, cardiac, and thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Cerebellar Retractor
Alternate name: Anderson Adson
Used for: Provide exposure to surgical site. Is self-retaining.
Specialty commonly used in: Orthopedic, neuro, and spine surgery
Instrument name: Debakey Clamp
Alternate name: Vascular clamp, atraumatic clamp
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: Dull Trocar
Alternate name: Dull tip trocar sheath, dull sheath
Instrument category: Endoscopic
Used for: Gaining access to a joint during arthroscopic surgery
Instrument name: Excimer Laser Fiber
Instrument category: Energy Devices
Used for: Delivery of laser to remove plaque from blood vessels
Specialty commonly used in: Excimer laser coronary atherectomy
Instrument name: Finnochitto Chest Retractor
Alternate name: Chest Spreader, Cooley Spreader, self-retainer
Used for: Self-retaining retractor used to hold open the chest
Specialty commonly used in: Cardiac and thoracic surgery
Instrument name: Gerald Forceps
Alternate name: Gerald dressing, Gerald pickup, atraumatic forcep
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: Impella Heart Pump
Alternate name: None
Instrument category: Accessory
Used for: Implanted heart pump
Specialty commonly used in: Procedures that require a percutaneous ventricular assist device
Instrument name: Jacobson Micro Vascular Needle Holder
Alternate name: Intracardiac needle holder, needle driver
Instrument category: Needle Holders
Used for: Holds small vascular sutures
Specialty commonly used in: Vascular, cardiac, and thoracic surgeries
Instrument name: Micra Delivery Catheter
Used for: Delivery of a micra leadless pacemaker
Specialty commonly used in: Implantation of a micra leadless pacemaker
Instrument name: Pacing Lead
Used for: Temporary pacing of the heart
Specialty commonly used in: Electrophysiology or cardiac procedures when pacing of the heart is needed
Instrument name: Sapien3 Transcatheter Heart Valve Delivery Device
Alternate name: Sapien3
Used for: Deployment and implantation of mitral valve
Specialty commonly used in: Transcatheter mitral valve replacement procedures
Instrument name: Satinsky Vena Cava Clamp
Alternate name: DeBakey Satinsky, Satinsky Clamp
Instrument name: Sternal Saw
Alternate name: Sternal saw, saw, chest saw
Used for: Cutting and drilling through the sternum