Instrument |
Uses |
Head Mirror with head band |
to focus light into the cavity under inspection; mirror is concave and is used with a Chiron lamp to produce a parallel beam of light;doctor views through the hole |
Head mounted lights with head band |
to focus light into the cavity under inspection |
Chiron lamp |
source of light |
Bull's eye lamp |
source of light; exiting lens is convex and produces a divergent beam of light |
Speculum |
to dilate orifices and to see inside |
•Thudichum's nasal speculum |
-do-; short blades |
•St. Clair Thompson's long bladed nasal speculum |
-do-; long blades |
•Killian's long bladed nasal speculum |
-do-; long blades and with handles; used more operations |
•Lemart's endural speculum |
open the ear canal |
•Seigle's pneumatic speculum |
open the ear canal and give a magnification |
•Aural/Ear speculum |
to fit in and straighten the external ear canal |
Lack's tongue depressor |
to depress or remove the tongue or other structures from the field of inspection or to view them in from all sides |
Forceps |
to hold things [3] |
•Asch's septum forceps |
used to work on the nasal septum |
•Tilly's nasal dressing forceps |
for use in the anterior part of the nasal cavity most importantly, anterior nasal packing; larger then Hartmann's |
•Tilly's aural dressing forceps |
for use in the ear canal; larger then Hartmann's |
•Hartmann's aural forceps |
for use in the ear canal; smaller then Tilly's and has a better "biting" action |
•Hunter Tod's forceps |
for use in the ear canal |
•Fagge's aural forceps |
for use in the ear canal |
•Waugh's long dissecting forceps |
used for dissection like on the tonsils |
•Wilson's tonsil artery forceps |
as an a haemostat |
•Negus tonsil artery forceps |
as an a haemostat |
•Peritonsilar abscess forceps |
to drain abscesses behind the the tonsils |
•Denis Brown's tonsil holding forceps |
to hold the tonsil during dissection |
•Luc's nasal forceps |
used in Caldwell-Luc operation operation on the nasal sinuses |
•Walsham forceps |
used to work on the nasal septum |
•Citelli's punch forceps |
punching out holes in bones or other tissues |
•Henckle's punch forceps |
punching out holes in bones or other tissues |
Eustachian (tube) catheter |
on certain procedures of the eustachian tube or the middle ear like patency test |
Mirrors |
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•Laryngeal mirror |
straight mirror for indirect laryngoscopy (seeing the larynx) |
•Postnasal/Posterior rhinoscopy mirror (St. Clair Thompson's) |
for posterior rhinoscopy (seeing the inner parts of the nose like the choanae) |
Bronchoscope |
hollow tube to see within the respiratory tract without obstructing respiration |
Oesophagoscope |
hollow tube to see within the oesophagus |
Laryngoscope |
used in direct laryngoscopy; vide link |
Jobson Horne's probe with ring curette |
to access or clean the the external ear |
Tuning forks |
for various clinical tests of deafness |
Pritchard's politzerization apparatus |
vide link |
Aural/Ear syringe |
used to flush out anything like ear wax or foreign bodies from the external ear |
Toynbee's auscultation tube |
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Otoscope/Auriscope |
to examine the external auditory canal and ear drum; self lit |
Mouth gag |
- |
•Doyen's mouth gag |
to keep the mouth open, mostly operate the mouth |
•Boyle Davis mouth gag |
to keep the mouth open and depress the tongue to operate within or through the mouth |
•Jenning's mouth gag |
-do- |
Draffin's bipod metallic stand and Magauran's plate |
used to hold the Boyle Davis mouth gag fitted head in a particular place |
Guillotine |
used in guillotine method of tonsillectomy |
Gwyenne Evans Tonsil dissector and anterior pillar retractor |
used in tonsillectomy |
Snares |
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•Eve's tonsil snare |
to remove tonsil - used at the end to minimize bleeding |
•Krause's nasal snare |
used to remove nasal polyps |
•Glegg's nasal polyp snare |
used to remove nasal polyps |
•Aural snare |
used to remove aural polyps |
Tonsil knife |
used in tonsillectomy |
Yorke's tonsil haemostatic clamp |
haemostatic clamps |
Negus' ligature slipper/knot tier |
used with Negus's or Wilson's artery forceps to help tie sutures |
Negus' artery forceps |
as a haemostat |
St. Clair Thompson adenoid curette with cage and guard |
used in adenoid surgery |
Yankauer's nasopharyngoscope |
for a direct access or look at the nasopharynx |
Yankauer suction tip |
double bent sucker; used as a sucker in operations of the mouth |
Lichtwitz antrum-puncture trocar and canula |
used in nasal sinus surgery |
Tilly's antral harpoon trocar |
to create an artificial passage into the maxillary sinus through the nose |
Tilly's antral bur |
to enlarge the artificial passage into the maxillary sinus through the nose made by the harpoon trochar |
Freer's double-ended mucoperichondrium elevator |
separation of the mucosa from the cartilage in nasal surgery like Septomarginal resection |
Farabuef's periosteal elevator |
used in mastoid surgeries like mastiodectomy |
Rose's sinus washing canula |
to irrigate the maxillary sinuses |
Higginson's syringe |
irrigating the antrum |
Ballenger's swivel knife |
cutting septal cartilage |
Nasal foreign body hook |
to remove nasal foreign bodies |
Electric drill |
for bone drilling |
Mollison's self-retaining haemostatic mastoid retractor |
used in mastiod surgeries to retract overlying tissues |
Staecke's guide and protector |
used in mastoid surgeries |
Chisel |
removing parts of bones |
Mastoid gouge |
removing parts of mastoid bones |
MacEwen's cell seeker with curette |
used to curette within the mastoid |
Lempert's curette or scoop |
removing parts of the nasal septum |
Killian's nasal bone gouge |
bayonet shaped; removing parts of the nasal septum |
Myringotome |
used to cut the ear drum |
Grommet stapedectomy set |
used in surgeries of the ear drum |
Tracheostomy tube |
used in tracheostomy to bypass the airway above its point of insertion, due to any reason |
•Fuller's bi-valve type |
metal double tube; used in a new tracheostomy or during closing it for a few days |
•Portex type |
used in permanent tracheostomy |
•Cuffed type |
in unconscious patient (single cuff is sufficient); used in permanent tracheostomy (with two cuffs); has a balloon (cuff) that is inflated to occlude the airway around the tube to prevent aspiration of fluids into the lungs |
•Jackson's |
metal double tube and a pilot |
Retractor's (single or double hook) |
to retract tissues |
Tracheal hooks (blunt or sharp) |
used in tracheostomy |
Lemart's endural retractor |
used in ear surgery |
•Jansen's self retaining |
self retaining retractor used in mastoid surgery |
•Mollison's self retaining haemostatic |
self retaining retractor used in mastoid surgery |
Tracheal dilator |
used in tracheostomy to dilate the cut edges of the trachea |
Long gauze pieces |
for anterior nasal packing |