Thumb Forceps

THUMB FORCEPS

(A) Adson, (B) Brown-Adson, Adson, (C) Thumb w/teeth, (D) Bonnie, (E) Russian, (F) Cushing, (G) DeBakey, and (I) Dressing

Thumb forceps are commonly held between the thumb and two or three fingers of one hand, with the top end resting on the anatomical snuff box at the base of the thumb and index finger. Spring tension at one end holds the grasping ends apart until pressure is applied. This allows one to quickly ickly and easily grasp small objects or tissue to move and release it or to grasp and hold tissue with easily variable pressure. Thumb forceps are used to hold tissue in place when applying sutures, to gently move tissues out of the way during exploratory surgery and to move dressings or draping without using the hands or fingers. Thumb forceps can have smooth tips, cross cross-hatched hatched tips or serrated tips (often called 'mouse's teeth'). Common arrangements of teeth are 1x2 (two teeth on one side meshing with a single tooth on the other), 7x7 and 9x9. Serrated forceps are used on tissue; counter counter-intuitively, teeth will damage tissue less than a smooth surface (you can grasp with less overall pressure). Smooth or cross-hatched hatched forceps are used to move dressings, rremove emove sutures and similar tasks. Thumb forceps do not have box locks or ring handles but rather have spring handles which are held closed by the thumb and finger pressure. Sometimes this type of forceps is referred to as dressingforceps when the jaws are serrated and the instrument is use used d to grasp delicate tissueor wound dressing. A heavier version of this type of forceps is referred to as thumbtissue forceps used for grasping heavier tissue where the teeth will provide a more secure grasp. Examples of thumb forceps are Adson, Brown Brown-Adson,, Hudson, Dressing,Tissue Forceps with Teeth, Russian, Cushing, and DeBakey.

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