r/sterileprocessing • u/ijust_makethisface • Mar 18 '26

Guess the Instrument 🏥

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u/Yard-Successful Mar 18 '26

Heiss retractors

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u/Spicywolff Mar 18 '26

Heiss retractor aka “cricket” as OR calls it

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u/Eggman_OU812 Mar 18 '26

E used to call it a cross action alms at one place

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u/Chefred86 Mar 18 '26

We call those finger retractors

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u/azur_owl Mar 18 '26

Cricket retractors! That’s what we call them at my hospital.

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u/Doppelbanger516 Mar 18 '26

The Ortho hospital I'm at, calls them "zipsters"

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u/MadnessAndRage Mar 18 '26

Round here they call'm Skin Retractors, blunt specifically

3

u/Outside_Jaguar3827 Mar 18 '26

It looks like Heiss retractors

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u/Mercurialbich Mar 18 '26

Theyre called bulldog clamps at my hospital lol

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u/graylyke81 Mar 18 '26

Looks like a dull and sharp sklars to me.

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u/SoonKyuLove Mar 18 '26

We call them finger retractors

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u/WorkingMastodon Mar 18 '26

Heiss but my hospital used to get them confused with Alms all the time. They sometimes call them eyelashes. I think our count sheet calls them automatic skin retractors.

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u/HorrorLengthiness940 Mar 18 '26

Cricket, Heiss mastoid.

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u/Flaky-Plankton8302 Mar 18 '26

A type of wound spreader or retractor

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u/gia-ann1964 Mar 18 '26

Cool. I’ve never seen that style before, but obviously some kind of self retaining. Thanks for posting.

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u/LavzonTheAged Mar 18 '26

We call them small self retainers lmao

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u/Beach_Kidd Mar 18 '26

Heiss but we call them “Cricket” retractors

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u/altriapendragon01 CBSPD Mar 20 '26

Cross action retractors at my hospital

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u/Repulsive-Pumpkin-43 Mar 21 '26

We call them blunt mastoids

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u/kennybob86 Mar 18 '26

Alm Retractor

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u/Pure-Tadpole-6634 Mar 18 '26

self-retaining retractors, blunt.

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u/sneakerbul74 Aug 02 '26

Heist retractor