ITEMS SUPPLIED BY SCRUB
ILLUSTRATION
PROCEDURE BY SURGEON
ILLUSTRATION
8.
8. Using curved Mayo scissors,
8. Curved Mayo scissors
8.
the external oblique muscle is
split the length of the incision.
Small Richardson retractors
with hemostats and ligatures.
Suture
The external oblique muscle is
Curved Mayo Scissors
then retracted.
Straight Mayo scissors
NOTE: Curved Mayo
scissors are used for muscle or
tough tissue. Straight Mayo
scissors are used to cut suture.
9. The internal oblique and
9. Curved Mayo scissors
9. See illustration #8 in
transverse muscles are split
9.
"closing procedures" and
parallel to the fibers up to the
Crile hemostats
illustrations #4, #5, and #6 in
rectus sheath with a scalpel
"opening procedures."
or scissors. These muscles
Richardson retractors
are then retracted.
Deep knife (#3 handle with
Abdominal muscles are split
#10 blade)
in this procedure. Where
possible, the surgeon prefers
to avoid interfering with
muscular blood supply and
nerve functions by making a
"muscle-splitting" incision or
retracting the entire muscle.
With retraction of muscle
fibers, the posterior (interior)
fascia layer is exposed.
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