Orthopedic Surgical Instruments

Baby Bennett Retractor

Typically used on small bones in the foot or wrist

Beaver Blade Handle

Used for small orthopedic surgeries such as hand and foot surgery

Adson Bipolar Forceps

Used for small orthopedic surgery, current is bi-polar in nature, unlike a Bovie it does not require a grounding pad and is often preferred around delicate vessels and nerves because it produces less thermal dispersion

Bone Tamp

Used for compaction of bone

Brun Currette

Used for curretting bone, available with many cup sizes and degrees of angle

Cobb Elevator

Used for elevating and blunt dissection

K-Wire Cutter
(Pin Cutter)

Used for cutting metal wire and K-Wires

Freer Elevator

Used for elevating and blunt dissection, typically in smaller orthopedic cases

Gelpi Retractor

Self-retaining retractor common in spine surgery

Ragnell

Used for retraction in small orthopedic cases

Hoen Elevator

Used for blunt dissection

Hoke Osteotome

Used for dissection

Key Elevator

Used for removing periosteum from bone

Lambotte Osteotome

Used for scoring or cutting bone, available in both straight and curved tips and often used to take hip and bone grafts

Putti Rasp

Smoothing the surface of bone, often used to contour bone after amputations

Rainey Forceps

Used for cauterization, confused with a bipolar, this one is monopolar and therefore requires a grounding pad

Rongeur

Used for cutting away pieces of bone

Sauerburch Retractor
(Sauer)

Used for retraction of soft tissue

Spring Retractor

Small self-retaining retractor common for hand surgery

Tendon Passer

Used in hand and foot surgery for passing tendons for reattachment