COMBINED NEEDLE-HOLDER AND SCISSORS.

A Holder Needle.

THE finest movements of surgery are made with the fingers and thumb, not with the wrist and hand as a whole. In the usual method of suturing, the needle is grasped by the needle-holder which is held more or less in the palm of the hand. The fine, sharp needles of ophthalmic surgery, such as those made by Grieshaber, inevitably become dulled as they are grasped by the metal blades of the needle-...

New needle-holder for corneal suturing.

A Miniature Needle-holder for the Finest Suturing.

MANY needle-holders are in use and each surgeon has his own preferences for different kinds of suturing, in different kinds of tissues, and in different positions of the surgical field. The position presents a difficult problem and there is often a need for greater accuracy and manoeuverability than is possible with the conventional needle-holders. To meet the need for such an instrument, a "Ho...

A new needle holder facilitating palm grip suturing.

PURPOSE The finger grip and the palm grip are the most common needle holder grips for hand suturing in surgery. The major advantages of the palm grip are an increased versatility and the possibility to apply controlled force. However, there is a risk for a potential loss of precision and uncontrolled movement of the needle when disengaging the ratchet mechanism of the palmed instrument. The pur...

Electromyographic Comparison of Forearm Muscle Movements for Fine Skin Suturing Between an Enlarged Pen Needle Holder and a Webster Needle Holder

BACKGROUND For surgical suturing, a Webster needle holder uses wrist supinating with supinator and extrinsic muscles, whereas a pen needle holder uses finger twisting with intrinsic and extrinsic muscles. Because the latter is better suited to microsurgery, which requires fine suturing with less forearm muscle movement, we have recently adopted an enlarged pen needle holder scaled from a micro ...