Forceps
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Forceps include any of a number of medical hand held tools intended for grasping or clamping. These tools are typically plier or tweezer like and serve many different specific purposes, though some types are more versatile than others. Forceps should be included in a BOB or first aid kit both for their intended medical purposes and other tasks.
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Types Of Forceps
There are many different types of forceps, these are some of the more common ones:
Thumb Forceps
Commonly called "tweezers" by lay people these use thumb pressure to close the forceps to grasp the targeted object.
Locking & Kelly Forceps
Kelly forceps (aka Rochester forceps) are perhaps the most familiar locking type hemostat, as they are featured in many different medical scenes on TV and in movies. They are similar in appearance to scissors, but with ends more like small needle nose pliers that have a locking clamp in the center. Mosquito forceps are a version of Kelly forceps only narrower and finer. Larger version are known as a Carmalt forceps.
Other Locking Forceps
- Anesthesia Forceps
- Artery Forceps
- Atraumatic Forceps
- Biopsy Forceps
- Bone Cutting Forceps
- Bone-Holding Forceps
- Catheter Forceps
- Cilia Forceps
- Curettes Forceps
- Cushing Forceps
- Dermal Forceps & Nippers
- Dressing Forceps
- Ear Forceps
- Eye Forceps
- Gall Bladder Forceps
- Hemostatic Forceps
- Hysterectomy Forceps
- Intestinal Forceps
- Micro Surgery Forceps
- Nasal Forceps
- Obstetrical Forceps
- Post Mortem Forceps
- Splinter Forceps
- Sponge Forceps
- Sterilizer Forceps
- Suture Sundries Forceps
- Tenaculum Forceps
- Thoracic Forceps
- Thoracic Surgical Forceps
- Tissue Forceps
- Tongue Forceps
- Tooth Extracting Forceps
- Tubing Forceps
- Uterine Forceps
- Vusellum Forceps
- Wire Cutting Forceps
