Classification Of Medical Scissors

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Basic surgical instruments can be divided into: medical scissors, hemostatic forceps, needle-holding forceps, sponge forceps, scalpel and so on, the following is a detailed introduction of the medical scissors.


Medical scissors can be classified into the following categories:


(I) According to the purpose of the product:


Surgical scissors: for cutting dressings, human epidermal tissues or soft tissues.

Tissue scissors: For cutting tissue.


Composite shear: For cutting soft tissue.


Fine shear: for shearing blood vessels, mucous membranes or free tissues.


Vascular scissors: Small blood vessels are offered for cutting, while fine scissors can be used to replace large blood vessels.


Anatomical scissors: Used for dissecting tissues.


Suture removal shears: used for cutting and removing sutures.


Angle bandage scissors: used for surgical shear gauze bandage and plaster gasket.


Meninges/nerve snips: used to remove diseased bone and necrotic tissue during brain surgery.


Microscissors: Used for fine trimming of blood vessels, nerve tissues or separating interstitial tissues during microsurgery.


Ophthalmic scissors: Ophthalmic scissors, also known as ophthalmic surgery scissors, ophthalmic surgery scissors, is used to cut soft tissue eye instruments.

Ophthalmic shear ice is small, the tip of the cusp is 0.4 mm wide, sharp but not sharp, the tip of the round tip is 1.6 mm wide.

In general, straight ends are used to shear surface tissue, and elbows are used to shear deeper tissue or for separation.

The cusp can be used for fine clipping, modification and prick of soft tissue.


Corneal scissors: used for microophthalmic surgery to cut cornea and bulbous conjunctiva.


Membranous cataract scissors: used for cutting trabecula, iris, capsule and other tissues during eye surgery.


Trabecular scissors: Used for cutting trabecular, iris, capsule and other tissues during eye surgery.


Microiris scissors: used for cutting trabecula, iris, capsule and other tissues during eye surgery.


Stapes arch scissors: for microsurgery of the donor ear, the stapes arch neck is cut.

Malleus head scissors: used for shearing cartilage in ear canal.