Scissors
How do you choose a scissors?
The choice of surgical scissors is large.
Scissors can be long or short, strong or fine, blunt or sharp-pointes, straight or curved either on the flat side or on the edge.
More expensive scissors have tungsten edges that are sharp, tough and long lasting.
The choice will depend on many factors, and on the surgeon’s preference perhaps; the most important of these factors are as follows:
· For surgical cutting, short scissors are appropriative.
· Long scissors are used in deep dissection (as in thoracic and pelvic surgery).
· Curved scissors are more popular for dissection because with the convexity of blades pointing away from the surgeon, structures being cut on both sides of the tip are visible.
It should be realized that the longer the instrument, the more pronounced is the tremor transmitted.
The varieties of scissors in use are as follows:
· Mayo
· McIndoe
· Nelson
· Metzenbaum
· Lloyd-Davies
· Abel
· Potts
· DeBakey
· Microvascular
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