Used for holding the fractured bone in alignment while plates and screws are placed. It resembles an eagle's talon.
What is a Lowman bone clamp?
100
It is for retracting tissues during large bone procedures. Also called by the name of a deadly snake.
What is Bennett or Cobra retractor?
100
Used for retracting large amounts of tissue that does not involve bone. It is also used in the fall in the middle east.
What is an Israel Rake retractor?
100
Screws that exert compression on bone fragments either directly or with a plate.
What is a lag screw?
100
It spans a two fragment fracture and is fixed in place with lag screws.
What is a static or neutralization plate?
200
Used during ORIF these hold the plate in alignment while drilling and screw fixation occurs.
What is a Plate forceps?
200
Used for retracting bone or heavy tissue, It is a thick handle with an extremely sharp curved hook at the working end. Always hand the prongs pointing downward.
What is a bone hook?
200
Used for retracting tissue for exposure during total hip arthroplasty. It has a thin handle with curved,rounded end and a blade at a right angle with a sharp tip.
What is a Taylor Hip Retractor?
200
Used mainly in dense spongy bone; large diameter and greater pitch to increase contact with bone.
What is a cancellous screw?
200
It can be bent to fit the contours of the bone surface. First an aluminum template is fitted over the bone to duplicater the contour.
What is a reconstruction plate?
300
It is also called a meniscus clamp. It is used for grasping heavy tissues and cartilage as in the knee during total knee arthroplasty.
What is a Martin Cartilage clamp?
300
Used for procedures involving deep tissue such as the spine. It resembles a Weitlander with hinged arms.
What is a Beckman retractor?
300
Used for retracting in small areas. It is a self-retaining retractor with a thumb screw and flaring wings to open the arms of the retractor.
What is an Alm retractor?
300
A screw with a hollow core that allows it to be fitted over a pre-positioned guide wire.
What is a cannulated screw?
300
It has screw holes that are inclined and offset. It is designed to reduce contact between the plate and bone.
What is a low-contact dynamic compression plate?
400
Ringed handles with very sharp double curved graspers. It may be used during hip arthroplasty to punch holes in bones to pass sutures when closing the joint.
What is a Lewin Bone-Holding Forceps?
400
Used for removal of the femoral head from the joint during arthroplasty. It is double ended with large or small curved spoons at each end.
What is a Murphy-Lane Bone skid?
400
It is placed between the glenoid and the humeral head to obtain exposure. It is angled two-prong blade with a straight flat handle.
What is a humeral head retractor?
400
It is the process of making a hole in the material to accommodate the screw.
What is tapping?
400
It is used to give added strength or to "prop" one structure against another. It is commonly used in fractures of the tibia.
What is a buttress plate?
500
Used for manipulating bone fragments into place. It has long thin handles with a bar ratchet device between them to lock the jaws in place.
What is a Kern Bone-holding Forceps?
500
This is a flattened, double-ended retractor that has a laterally bent blade and slightly bent lip with V-shaped teeth on one end and a small crescent-shaped blade on the other.
What is a Hibbs retractor?
500
Double ended with right angle blunt blades used for retraction of varying amounts of tissue at different depths.
What is a Ragnell retractor?
500
It has flutes at the tip that cut a passage for the threads as the screw is inserted.
What is a self-tapping screw?
500
It provides a mechanical advantage in fixation of long bones. It is placed on the convex or gap side of a fracture to counteract the load and prevent the gap from widening.