Blade handles:

Name	Length	Description
No 3	5”	Narrow nose.	10, 11, 12, 15
No 4	5½”	Wide nose.	20, 21 ,22
No 5	4½”	Narrow nose	10, 11, 12, 15

Scissors:

Name	Description	Usage
Dressing	One sharp blade, the other blunt. 5½”	Cutting sutures etc
Lister	Rounded point to fit between skin and bandage	Dressings, bandages
Mayo	Heavy curved or straight blades: 5½” and 6¾”	Blunt dissection
Metzenbaum	Light and slender; various lengths	Dissection

Dissecting forceps:

Name	Description	Usage
Adsons	Lightweight; broad thumb grip.	Grasping delicate tissues, such as nerves.
Non-toothed	Various weights and lengths.	Extension of surgeon's fingers; dilatation of blood vessels.
Toothed	Various combinations of small teeth at end of the jaws.	Grasping heavier tissues.

Artery forceps:

Name	Description	Usage
Crile	Straight or curved; serrated jaws; 5½” and 6½”. Also straight Criles with 1 into 2 teeth distally.	General purpose.
Kelly	Straight or curved; 5½”. Similar to Criles, but serrations only extend halfway down jaws.	General purpose.
Kocher's	Fully serrated jaws; strong ratchet; 1 into 2 teeth.	For thicker and heavier tissues.
Mosquito	Straight or curved, delicate, serrated jaws, fine points: 5”.	For fine work, such as neurology and plastics.
Spencer Wells	Straight or curved; stronger than Crile and Kelly, with shorter jaws.	General purpose.

Tissue forceps:

Name	Description	Usage
Allis	Interlocking teeth.	For holding delicate tissue.
Babcock	Jaws with fenestrated square tips.	Grasping delicate tissue: appendix or anastomosis.

Hand held retractors:

Name	Description	Usage
Czerny	Angular ends, 1 bladed and 1 fenestrated.	General purpose.
Deavers	Curved handle and large curved blade.	Retracting soft tissue, such as the liver.
Hook	Single or double (fenestrated), sharp or blunt hooks.	For small wound retraction eg, tracheostomy.
Volkmann	Claw rake with 2, 4, or 6 prongs - blunt or sharp.	To open wounds in shallow surface incisions.
Walton's	Malleable strip of 12” stainless steel.	Deep retraction in pelvic cavity.

Self retaining retractors:

Name	Description	Usage
Balfour	2 blades on arms fixed to a cross-bar, and another blade attached to the centre of the cross-bar.	Retraction in 3 planes in major abdominal surgery.
Weislander	4 teeth on one jaw, interlocking with 3 teeth on the other jaw: 6½”.	Retraction in shallow wounds.

Specula:

Name	Description	Usage
Aural	Oval or round cone like shape, with large proximal opening, and smaller distal opening.	Allows direct operation onto Tympanic membrane.
Killian	Scissor like hand grips - spring controlled.	Blades allow gentle retration of nasal cartilage.
Rectal	Hollow specula, with handle at right angles.	A blunt obturator makes the opening, then removed, leaving the specula in place.
Vaginal	Duck-bull like concave blades, pivot distally.	Retraction of vagina gives view of cervix.