Medical and surgical tweezers and pliers

Customer information on anatomical tweezers for use in the OR

Anatomical tweezers are tweezers whose jaws are marked by transverse grooves. It can be straight or with a bent front end and is manufactured in different lengths. Anatomical tweezers are suitable for the gentle detection of easily vulnerable structures, such as blood vessels or nerves. It is therefore mainly used in anatomy (hence the name), but is also used in surgery for this application. However, the tissue-protecting property has the disadvantage that detected structures can slip out of the tweezers. In contrast to surgical tweezers, a strong pull is not possible. Anatomical forceps are available in numerous special forms, most of which are named after their developer: Adson (after Alfred Washington Adson) Brophy Cushing DeBakey (after Michael Ellis DeBakey) Gerald Hudson (after Ewald Hudson) Micro-Adson (after Alfred Washington Adson) Mc Indoe Potts-Smith Semken Singley-Tuttle Silent Taylor Wangensteen (after Owen H. Wangensteen) Waugh.