Potts-de Martel Artery Scissors — 45°, 19 cm

Fizza Surgical supplies the Potts-de Martel Artery Scissors — 45°, 19 cm (Ref SC 02-315-02) as a standard catalogue line to hospitals and distributors.

Willis John Potts was a paediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Northwestern who developed the angled scissors for cutting vessels during cardiac surgery — specifically the Blalock-Taussig and Potts shunts in early treatment of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Modern Potts scissors are used wherever angled vascular cuts are needed: vascular anastomosis, aortic surgery, vessel harvesting for coronary bypass, and trauma vascular repair. The defining feature is the angled blade — 25°, 45°, 60°, and 90° angles are all manufactured — letting the surgeon cut a vessel at any required angle without rotating the instrument. Most common in 18–20 cm overall length. Tungsten carbide tips are standard in modern vascular and cardiac sets.

Every instrument is forged, machined, and finished at the Sialkot facility from German-origin stainless billet — austenitic 304 / 316 grades for non-cutting, mucosal-contact, and hollow-ware lines where corrosion resistance is the priority, martensitic 420 / 440 grades for cutting and edge-retention patterns where heat-treatable hardness matters, and 17-4 PH precipitation-hardened stainless for high-load orthopedic and implant-handling applications. Polishing, passivation, and final inspection are performed in-house under documented quality procedures aligned with ISO 13485:2016.