Cross-Serrated 130mm Dressing Forceps — Hand Surgery

Cross-Serrated 130mm Dressing Forceps — Hand Surgery

The 130mm cross-serrated forceps is the hand-and-wrist surgery default — short enough for the fine working dimensions of digital and wrist anatomy, grippy enough for the dense flexor-tendon-sheath and palmar-fascial tissues that hand surgery handles. The 13cm length is shorter than the standard 15cm general-surgical length because hand surgery typically works within a 5-10cm operative field where a longer forceps is unwieldy.

The hand-surgery field

Hand surgery (flexor-tendon repair, carpal-tunnel release, Dupuytren’s contracture release, finger amputation revision) works through small incisions on small structures. The cross-serrated 130mm forceps handles the flexor-tendon end during repair, the transverse-carpal-ligament edge during release, and the Dupuytren cord during dissection — each tissue dense and demanding precise grip. The shorter length keeps the forceps tip in the operator’s visual field at the constrained working distances hand surgery uses.

Pairing in the hand-surgery tray

Standard hand-surgery instrument sets include the cross-serrated 130mm, the Adson 120mm, the McIndoe 150mm, and the dedicated tendon-handling forceps (Adson-Brown 1×2 tooth for skin, smooth Allis for tendon end). The cross-serrated 130mm covers the general tissue handling that the specialty instruments do not address.