Surgical Operating Room Instrument Checklist

World wide data about the surgical checklist demonstrates that it reduces morbidity and mortality. A World Health Organisation encourages surgeons across the world to use the checklist while operating on patients. The use of WHO surgical safety checklist in the operating room lowers the risk of miss happening during Medical surgery.

This checklist is based on the successful international program “Safe Surgery Saves Lives”.

There is no country in the world where no mistakes are noticed during operating the patients. Checklist consists of three columns, which correlates to the three phases of an operation. These three phases are:

• Before anaesthesia (Sign-in)
• Before skin incision (Time-out)
• Before leaving the operating room (Sign-out)

In medical-surgical operating room instrument checklist, all the information about the instruments is given which are used in an operation. It is meant to help in planning operating rooms. Setting surgery tray properly according to the type of surgery being conducted is valuable and important in any surgery. Proper setup and arrangement of surgical tray helps the surgeon not only perform the surgery efficiently, but it also allows him to have all his preferred surgical instruments easily available. Surgical technicians have to understand the requirement of each specific surgeon’s for proper surgical tray arrangement. Wide ranges of instruments are used in the surgical operating room, some standard instruments are used for most surgeries and other are specialized for specific type of surgery. A general instrument tray consists all of the following instruments:

• Clamps: Clamps are also known as haemostats and is used to stop bleeding from vessels. Many size and types of clamps are available in the market.


• Retractors: It is known as retracting instrument it is used to separate incision edges and restrain internal body structure. Two type of retractor are hand-held retractor and self-retaining retractor.


• Forceps: function as grasping tool which is used by surgeons for grasping tough tissues. Some forceps are used to deliver babies however others are used as needle forceps which are used to needles to carry out various suture procedures.


• Needle holders: Needle holders are used to attach suture and it comes in the category of suturing instruments. Size of these needle holders depends on the type of the surgery for which they are needed.


• Suction: Suction tubes are used to remove the blood  from the area being operated on to allow the surgeons to view and work on the area.


• Surgical scalpels: Scalpels have a handle to hold the device and a blade attached on another end to make incisions. These blades are sharp and made from fine quality steel of medical-grade.


• Surgical scissors: Used to cut bandages, sutures or even tissue. This is an instrument which is used in all type of surgery.

Specialized Instruments:

Instruments used in Orthopaedic or bone surgery: Orthopaedic tray includes bone cutter called rongeurs, saw, screwdrivers, hammer, drills, steel pins and metallic plates to cut and scrape the bones. This type of surgery is performed on joints, muscles and bones.

Instruments used in micro surgeries: micro surgery instruments are used in the surgery of neurology, vascular, eye, hand. These instruments are smallest of all the services.

Instruments used in gynaecology and urology: Dilation instruments which is part of kit used in urology and gynaecology.

Different surgery services have its own surgery tray with some devices of general instrument tray added to it. Frequently used instruments are sterilized properly and separately from those which are not often used. It plays an important role in the patients post-operative health. Microscopes and air compressors are not sterilized.

It is extremely important to ensure that the instruments being used are properly sterilized and have been purchased from the right source. Quality and precise instruments are the most important aspect of the instruments being used during a surgery. 

GPC Medical Limited supplies and manufactures the best instruments in the medical industry. They are used indigeneously by the surgeons in India and are also widely exported to many countries. 

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Six medical specialities and the basic equipment needed for each

Being a Doctor is a noble profession, who with completely advanced education and clinical training cares for your health. They prevent, diagnose, treat and cure diseases. In today’s times it is a necessity to have medical specialists around you. However, a doctor also needs various basic equipment to cure his patients and diagnose the cause of their sufferings. It is like a hand and glove situation where the medical specialists and the basic medical specialities go hand in hand in supporting each other and therefore save many lives. A doctor also goes through professional training to specialize in various fields like Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics to name a few. These medical specialists use various kinds of equipment to diagnose the disease of their patients and these equipment’s are very essential in the field of medicine.

 

Pathology: 

Pathology is a branch of medical speciality concerning the examination of tissues, cell and bodily fluids for determining the cause and nature of diseases. Pathologists enable medical professionals to diagnose and treat patient flawlessly. Equipment’s used by pathologists are flow cytometer, spirometer, haemocytometer, manometer, trephine biopsy needle and a Ryle’s tube. Some of the equipment’s are explained below.

• Flow Cytometry - We use this innovative test to diagnose  cancer and evaluate the risk of recurrence. It is a technology which  is used to inspect the physical and chemical characteristics of particles in a fluid as it passes through at least one laser. The application of this laser based technology is to perform several procedures including cell counting, cell sorting, protein engineering and detection of biomarkers.

• Spirometer - There are various spirometer made by different companies but the main function of this device is to help diagnose various lung condition, most commonly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Spirometer is a lung function test and looks at how well your lungs work it shows how well you in and out, breathing in and out can also be affected by lung disease.

 

Paediatrics: 

Paediatrics is a medical speciality that provides not only medical care but also manages physical, mental and emotional well-being of the infant, toddlers, children and adolescents.  A paediatrician uses basically the same equipment as any other doctor such as stethoscope, thermometer, microscope etc; except that some of the equipment designed with its use for child in mind. These equipment are :

• Infant Incubators - Infant incubator is used for those infant who born premature because these infants often can’t keep themselves warm without help so they are placed inside incubator. These incubators protect infants from noise, light and infection.

• Baby Scale - There are various kinds of scales to examine your baby health.  Digital baby scale helps to measure the weight accurately and another scale is used to measure the height of baby and a comparison is made to a standard growth chart to determine whether the growth of child is normal.

• Sphygmomanometer - It is use to check your baby’s blood pressure. This equipment with a cuff that is attached to a monitor gives automatic digital readouts.

 

Cardiology: 

Medical speciality deals with heart related disorder is known as cardiology. Cardiologists diagnose and treat heart disease such as congenital heart defect, heart failure and valvular heart disease. Equipment used to diagnose heart related disease are:

• Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging(CMR) - This medical equipment allow  cardiologist to know about the mechanical functions of the heart. Detailed pictures of your tissues and organ are created with the use of this equipment; which is safe and non-invasive test in which no surgery is done and no instruments are inserted into your body.

• ECG -  ECG stands for electrocardiography is the recording of the electrical activity of heart.

 

Gynecology: 

A medical science that deals with the diseases and routine physical care of the reproductive system of women.

• Maternity Bed - Also known as birthing bed are developed to ensure that women have the best possible birthing experience.

• Ayre’s spatula - This instrument is disposable and made of wood so that cells can adhere to its porous surface.

 

Radiology: 

A radiologist is a specialist medical doctor who uses imaging in diagnosing and treating injuries and disease. A radiologist uses various equipment such as X-ray, ultrasound and positron emission tomography.

• Ultrasound Scan - It is a very commonly used painless test which uses sound waves to create images of organs inside your body. Ultrasound thought to be harmless as it uses sound waves instead of radiations.

 

Neurosurgery: 

Neurology is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disease which infect any part of the nervous system including brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. Equipment  used by neurosurgeon are pneumatic bone punch and operating knives.

• Pneumatic Bone Punch - This very precise and efficient punch enables cut bone with no effort. It saves time and with the help of this instrument it is very easy to perform a lumbar fusion where you have to cut a significant amount of bone material.
  
  

GPC Medical Limited is a pioneer in manufacturing these devices. Our products give accurate results and have long term durability with efficient after sales service for the sales in India.

Precise and perfect surgical instruments for priceless lives.

Times have changed and as human species we have begun to live longer and begun to be conscious of our health. Life spans have increased and so have the medical complications. A longer life means there is degeneration of the human cells with ageing and hence the need for replacement arises. There is a constant efficacy to experiment for betterment of health and therefore there is also a rise in the surgeries on the human body.

The word surgery no more sounds unheard of and a lot of people go under the knife during their life span. This has increased the demand in surgical instruments by manifold.

What are surgical instruments?

All kinds of instruments, tools or devices that are required during a surgery fall into the surgical instruments category.

The process of surgery involves cutting, dissecting, grasping, holding, retracting, or suturing using different types of surgical instruments. These instruments include scissors, forceps, needle holder, retractors, scalpel, towel clamps, and suction devices to name a few more important ones. These instruments are of highly sophisticated quality with the capability of dealing with minimal intrusive surgery.
 

What kind of material is desired to be used for these instruments?

We at GPC Medical Limited use materials that are in convergence with our expertise using primarily stainless steel to manufacture these surgical instruments. We also use other metals like titanium, chromium, vanadium, and molybdenum, are also used. We ensure that each instrument that is being made by us is of a highly sophisticated material and has the perfect sharpness required for a surgery. A high level of stringency is maintained while making these materials as they can be responsible for the life or death of a person.

There are strict institutional and professional protocols for the preparation of surgical instruments. Before using these instruments for an operation they must be sterilized and kept hygienically.

They must be promptly rinsed and well cleaned after a procedure.

Details of Surgical Instruments

Scissors: It is one of the most used instruments when performing a surgery. It can be of different types such as a scissors having blunt or sharp blades, straight or curved blades. Mayo scissors are used for cutting heavy fascia while Metzenbaum scissors are used to cut delicate tissues.

Forceps: They are made of two tines held together at one end with a spring device that holds the tines open. They can be used for tissue forceps or for dressing forceps. There are also Hemostats and Haemostatic Forceps and Intestinal Forceps

Scalpel: Scalpel is a sharp dissector. It has two parts-handles and blades. According to their size these handle and blades have different numbers.        

Needle Holder: They are locking instrument used to hold the needle while suturing tissue.

Retractors: They assist in the visualization of the operative field while preventing trauma to other tissues.

Suction Devices: They help in removing blood and other fluids from a surgical or dental operative field.

In a nutshell, we can say they are not just only surgical instruments but actually life saving devices that can be instrumental in saving a life. At GPC Medical Limited these instruments are tested and tried with diligence and safety measures that are unparalleled to any other products available in the market.

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