CHAPTER 100

Open Heart Microinstruments

Open heart microinstruments are usually used once the surgeon is operating on the heart vessels.

Possible instruments needed for the procedure include a basic open heart set and open heart extras.

100-1 Top, left and right: 1 tubing clamp; 1 Parsonnet epicardial (self-retaining spring) retractor, sharp, 3 × 3 prongs; 1 safety pin with rings. Bottom, left to right: 1 Snowden-Pencer scissors, straight; 1 Yasargil scissors, bayonet handle, 125-degree angle; 1 You-Potts scissors, fine, thin 10-mm blades, 45-degree angle; 2 Snowden-Pencer dressing forceps, 8 inch; 3 Garrett dilators: 2.0 mm, 1.0 mm, and 1.5 mm; 2 metal coronary suction tubes with tips.

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