What are Surgical Instruments?

Surgical Instruments are specially designed tools that are used to perform specific actions to carrying our desired effects during a surgery or operation. Over the time there are many new surgical instruments and tools have invented for the ease of surgeons. There is a huge classification of surgical instruments for their specification tasks such as Forceps, Scissors, Retractors, Knives, etc.

They are separately classified due to their specific task:

Forceps:-

They are used for holding and grasping tissues and other instruments during the surgery.

Scissors:-

Scissors are cutting tools - used for cutting nerves, tissues, blood vessels, etc.

Retractors:-

Retractors are used to hold, spread ribs, skin and other tissues.

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