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Ob Instruments
Ob Instruments
Ob Instruments
Holds needles
Needle holder
Hold/compress/stabilize soft tissue
Tissue forceps
Occlude/clamp blood vessels,
clamp/manipulate heavy tissue
Kelly forceps
Hold/retract peritoneum
Peritoneal forceps
Hold/grasp tough or slippery
tissue/structures
-anterior lip of cervix
Allis forceps
D&C
Hold open/retract posterior
vaginal wall
Bi-valve retractor
grasp/clamp tissue in uterus
-vessel clamp
-tissue/polyp/tumor removal
Uterine forceps
hold and examine cervix after
childbirth, assist in repair of
tissue tears during labor
Ring forceps
remove placental fragments,
clamp blood vessels/hemostasis
Ovum forceps
hold/stabilize cervix
Tenaculum
remove/scrape placental fragments/retained tissue
Sharp curette
Other instruments
used to puncture fetal membranes
Amniotome
guide and direct injection of anesthetic for pudendal block
-1cm inferior and 1cm medial from each ischial spine
Hysterometer
deliver after-coming head
in breech presentation
Piper's forceps
used to grasp fetal head
when there is significant molding
-elongated cephalic curve
Simpson's forceps