Surgical instruments manufacturing is done by ONE-piece forging. Surgical instruments are usually made from carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, or titanium, and are available in a range of sizes. Surgical instruments are specifically designed tools that are used to assist the health care professionals carry out their specific actions during an operation.
For Surgical instruments manufacturing there are many different considerations when choosing a material to use in the medical industry. After all, the wrong material choice could lead to disastrous consequences.
The most common metals used for Surgical instruments manufacturing are:
- Stainless steel
- Titanium
- Tantalum
- Platinium
- Palladium
These metals play a huge role in the Surgical instruments manufacturing the metal must be relatively malleable so it can be shaped without causing flaws, but not too malleable as it needs to hold its shape once manufactured. When it comes to biomedical instruments, not all metals are up to the job, especially base metals. In fact, most Surgical instruments manufacturing are done from metal alloys.
Types of Surgical Instruments
Most of our surgical instruments can be used for general surgery in a research laboratory setting. Instruments may be roughly categorized by function:
- Cutting instruments include scissors, surgical blades, knives and scalpels.
- Grasping or holding instruments include hemostatic forceps and tissue forceps.
- Retractors, which hold incisions open or hold an organ (or tissue) out of the way, include Gelpi, Weitlaner and US Army style instruments.
Classification of Surgical instruments
There are several classes of surgical instruments:
- Graspers, especially tweezers and forceps.
- Clamps and occluders for blood vessels and other organs.
- Retractors, used to spread open skin, ribs and other tissue.
- Distractors, positioners and stereotactic devices.
- Mechanical cutters (scalpels, lancets, drill bits, rasps, trocars, etc.)
- Dilators and speculae, for access to narrow passages or incisions.
- Suction tips and tubes, for removal of bodily fluids.
- Irrigation and injection needles, tips and tubes, for introducing fluid.
- Powered devices, such as drills, dermatomes.
- Scopes and probes, including fiber optic endoscopes and tactile probes.
- Carriers and appliers for optical, electronic and mechanical devices.
- Measurement devices, such as rulers and callipers.
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