Saturday, October 1, 2016

By Andrew Lee


Surgery is a medical procedure that is used to correct anomalies that require operation. A doctor who specializes in surgery is called a surgeon and he makes use of some special instruments to make his work successful and less tedious. The quality of the surgical instruments obtained from a medical supplier determines how well an operation may go. Medical supply store Bay Shore NY can boast of having good scissors, retractors, clamps, haemostatic forceps, bone cutters, bone drill, bone mallet, skin hook and more.

A surgeon needs to cut the skin during an operation. Instead of using just any kind of cutting material, a scalpel makes more sense because of the kind of blade it has. The doctor can determine the depth of the cut he wants when he uses the scalpel. Types of scalpels include stainless and disposable scalpel. These scalpels can be found in Bay Shore, NY

The scissors is a surgical instrument that cannot be ignored. While the scalpel is used for making incisions, the scissors is mostly applied for cutting items and tissues. Some scissors are purposely made blunt, thereby bringing a classification of sharp and blunt scissors. One can also get them in stainless steel. Blunt scissors are used in cutting sutures and dressings.

Surgeons do not use their fingers in very sensitive areas of the body. For example, when the rib is to be operated on, they make use of the rib spreader to spread the ribs apart so that they can have a better view of them. The rib spreader is a type of retractor. Other retractors that are sold in Bay Shore include lung retractors and skin retractors.

The use of bone cutters in surgery is indispensable because bones occupy almost every part of the body. Bone cutters must be used because they are designed especially to avoid complications during cutting. Some of the bone cutters used by surgeons include Costotome, sound cutters and unpowered cutters. When a Costotome is used, the aim is to access the thoracic cavity. It has the outer and inner levers which hold and cut the ribs in that order.

Since surgery deals with handling internal organs, care must be taken to ensure that everything that is used during an operation is germless. The surgeon is therefore not expected to use his bare hands but to make use of special surgical gloves. Surgical gloves are made of polymers such as latex, neoprene and vinyl. They are designed to be disposed immediately after each use. They are more sensitive than other medical gloves.

In orthopedic surgery (surgery that involves the musculoskeletal system), a special kind of instrument known as the Ilizarov apparatus is used.Ilizarov apparatus was first used in the 1950s to heal bone fractures that resulted from car accidents. It was first used in Russia but today, it can be found in orthopedic hospitals with sophisticated equipment. It is used in treating bone fractures, nonunion of bones and cases that cannot be treated with other means. Although this equipment is rare to find, they are available in almost every orthopedic hospitals in Bay Shore NY.

Even though they are not as expensive as the other surgical instruments, the needle holders still have their place in surgery. When a surgeon sutures, the needle he uses should not touch the floor as this can be another means of spreading disease to the patient. However, with a needle holder, the chance of this happening is reduced.




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