Types of Scissors?

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 Bandage scissors | Suture scissors | Tissue scissors | Operating Scissors | DeBakey scissors


Instrument name: Lister Bandage Scissor

Other names: Bandage scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissection

Description: Angled blunt scissor with a smooth, flattened lower blade tip.

Uses: Lister bandage scissors are used for dressings and drapes.  The blunt tip of the scissor helps to lift the bandage from the skin safely for easy dressing and safe bandage removal.

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Instrument name: Ligature Scissors

Other names: Suture scissor

Category: Cutting and dissection

Description: Tungsten-carbide curved scissor with micro-serration.

Uses: Ligature scissors are used to cutting stitches and sutures.

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Instrument name: Spencer Ligature Scissor

Other names: Suture scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissection

Description: Fine scissors have straight blades with a small notch on the lower edge.

Uses: These scissors are used as thread scissors to cut sutures and thin surgical wires intraoperatively and to remove sutures postoperatively. These scissors can cut even light sutures safely.

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Instrument name: Kelly Operating Scissors

Other Names: Tissue scissors

Category: Cutting and Dissection

Description: Fine curved tip blades.

Uses: Kelly scissors are used to cut and excise the excess fascia or diseased soft tissue.

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Instrument name: Operating Scissors

Other names: Straight Mayo Scissor

Category: Cutting and Dissection

Description: Heavy scissors with sharp and straight blades.

Uses: Operating scissors are used to cut the sutures.

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Instrument name: De Bakey Vascular Scissors

Other names: DeBakey scissor

Category: Cutting and dissection

Description: Double-action angled scissors with sharp blades.

Uses: DeBakey scissors are non-ratcheted finger ring scissors used for cutting and excising the vessels in cardiovascular and thoracic surgeries and procedures.

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Instrument name: Vascular Scissor

Other names: De Bakey vascular scissors

Category: Cutting and dissecting

Description: Long-shanked, double-action scissors with sharp blades.

Uses: Vascular scissors are used to cut vessels in cardiovascular surgeries and vascular anastomosis.

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Instrument name: Fine Scissor

Other names: Iris fine scissors

Category: Cutting and dissection

Description: Non-serrated fine scissors with sharp blades.

Uses: Fine scissors are used to cut and separate the soft tissues.