Hemostats
The function of hemostat forceps is to stop or prevent bleeding.
They look very much like scissors and incorporate a rachet lock on spring steel handles and crushing jaws instead of blades.
Artery forceps are primarily for holding open ends of bleeding blood vessels.
The tips have serrations with or without teeth to provide a firm grip.
There is also a locking device this allows the vessels to be held while others can be dealt with.
The handles have rings to accommodate the fingers. The tissue is grasped between the jaw tips. The varieties are:
• Spencer-Wells artery forceps (Figs 8.51A and B)
• Crile artery forceps (Fig. 8.52)
• Dunhill artery forceps (Fig. 8.53)
• Rochester-Ochsner forceps (Figs 8.54A and B)
• Kocher artery forceps (Figs 8.55A and B)
• Moynihan artery forceps (Fig. 8.56) (see pages 151-153).
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