A distal component of a surgical retraction system, surgical retractor, and/or surgical instrument assist arm system designed to function as a parting edge/hook to separate the margins of a wound/incision during a surgical procedure. It is intended to be at...
A distal component of a surgical retraction system, surgical retractor, and/or surgical instrument assist arm system designed to function as a parting edge/hook to separate the margins of a wound/incision during an open surgical procedure. It is intended to...
A non-sterile dental device intended to be attached to a battery-powered vibrating dental retractor handpiece to function as the retraction hook and vibration transmitter during the administration of a dental injection. The vibration is intended to minimize...
A hand-held, surgical instrument used for separating/drawing aside vascular structures to permit examination or intervention during a surgical procedure. It is typically a shaft-like instrument with an inwardly curved, saddle hook at the distal end and a ha...
A hand-held, shaft-like, manual surgical instrument designed for hooking and applying traction to specific soft-tissues of interest (e.g., skin, vessel, organ, and/or duct), to facilitate surgical intervention; it is not dedicated to separating or drawing a...
A hand-held, surgical instrument used for hooking around or into bone, typically to grasp, hold, and apply traction to the bone during a surgical intervention. It is a shaft-like instrument with a robust design and can have a singular hook or multiple hooks...
A hand-held, shaft-like, manual surgical instrument designed for hooking and applying traction to specific soft-tissues of interest (e.g., skin, vessel, organ, and/or duct) to allow surgical intervention on those tissues. It is not primarily designed for pu...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to hook skin or tissue in order to grasp, apply traction, and lift the skin/tissue during a surgical intervention. It is typically a shaft-like instrument with small double hooks at the distal end and a handle...
A dedicated ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used explicitly for the temporary mechanical retraction/dilatation of intraocular tissues (e.g., iris) during ophthalmic surgery. It is typically a small hook-like device which may include a retentio...
A hand-held, shaft-like, manual surgical instrument designed for hooking and applying traction to specific soft-tissues of interest (e.g., skin, vessel, organ, and/or duct), to facilitate surgical intervention; it is not dedicated to separating or drawing a...
A surgical instrument for separating or drawing aside the margins of a surgical incision made during ear/nose/throat (ENT) surgery or various structures of these anatomical locations. It can have various designs, e.g., double or single-ended with a flat or ...
A sterile, hand-held, shaft-like, manual surgical instrument designed for hooking and applying traction to specific soft-tissues of interest (e.g., skin, vessel, organ, and/or duct) to allow surgical intervention on those tissues. It is not primarily design...
A double-ended surgical instrument designed to hold the trachea steady during the creation of a tracheostoma and/or for separating/drawing aside the margins of a tracheostoma to assist in the insertion of a tracheostomy tube. It can be of various designs, e...
A hand-held, non-self-retaining surgical instrument intended to be used for retracting a nerve, tendon, or blood vessel to separate it from the surrounding tissue primarily to allow access to other tissues during a surgical intervention. It is a shaft-like ...
A self-locking surgical instrument designed to force apart two adjacent ribs to permit examination or intervention in the thoracic cavity. This device will typically have two interchangeable blades at the distal end that hook over the ribs to be parted, and...
A self-locking surgical instrument designed to force apart the surgically-split sternum (the breastbone) to permit surgical cardiac intervention within the thoracic cavity. This device will typically have two interchangeable profiled, pivoted blades (self-a...
A non-sterile, intraoperative surgical instrument designed for use during laparoscopic procedures to provide hands-free retraction of lower abdominal, urogenital or pelvic structures. It is inserted into the abdominal cavity through a small dedicated incisi...
A sterile, dedicated ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used explicitly for the temporary mechanical retraction/dilatation of intraocular tissues (e.g., iris) during ophthalmic surgery. It is typically a self-retaining ring/frame or a small hook-...
A self-locking, surgical instrument used to separate the margins of an abdominal incision typically during deep or extensive surgery, to expose or access organs or tissues for examination or intervention. The instrument has a flat, blunt-edged blade that ma...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument intended to be used to enable retraction of tissues during endoscopic/laparoscopic surgery. It consists of a handle with a slender body connected at the distal end to a retracting mechanism (e.g., inflatable/folding pa...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument intended to be used to enable retraction of tissues during endoscopic/laparoscopic surgery. It consists of a handle with a slender body connected at the distal end to a retracting mechanism (e.g., inflatable/folding pa...
A hand-held, manually-operated, surgical instrument intended to catch and pull, lift, or draw aside the wound margins of skin and thin or delicate tissues [e.g., dura mater (the outermost membrane that envelops the brain and spinal cord)] during a surgical ...
A sterile, hand-held manual surgical instrument intended to be used to enable retraction of tissues during endoscopic/laparoscopic surgery. It consists of a handle with a slender body connected at the distal end to a retracting mechanism (e.g., inflatable/f...
A self-locking, manual surgical instrument designed to force apart two adjacent ribs to permit examination or intervention in the thoracic cavity during a cardiothoracic surgical procedure. It typically has two interchangeable arms/blades at the distal end ...
An ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used explicitly for the temporary mechanical retraction/dilatation of tissues of the eyeball (e.g., iris, sclera) during ophthalmic surgery. It may be a hand-held hook-like device or a self-retaining device. ...