General Surgery Instrument Set — Complete Instrument List and Buying Guide

General Surgery Instrument Set — Complete List of Essential Instruments

A complete general surgery instrument set covers the core instruments needed for abdominal, thoracic, and soft-tissue procedures. This guide lists the essential instruments in a standard general surgery tray, explains why each is included, and helps procurement officers build or evaluate instrument sets.

Category 1: Cutting Instruments

• Mayo Scissors, curved, 17 cm (×2): Cutting fascia, sutures, and tough tissue
• Metzenbaum Scissors, curved, 18 cm (×2): Delicate dissection, peritoneum, vessel dissection
• Operating Scissors, straight, 14 cm (×1): Suture cutting, superficial tissue
• Scalpel Handle #3 (×2) + Handle #4 (×1): For blades #10, #11, #15, #20, #22

Category 2: Hemostatic Forceps (Clamps)

• Halsted Mosquito Forceps, curved, 12.5 cm (×6): Small vessel hemostasis
• Kelly Clamps, curved, 14 cm (×4): Medium vessel hemostasis and blunt dissection
• Kocher Clamps, straight, 14 cm (×2): Fascia and tough tissue pedicles
• Rochester-Pean Forceps, curved, 18 cm (×2): Large tissue pedicles

Category 3: Tissue Forceps (Thumb Forceps)

• Adson Tissue Forceps with teeth, 12 cm (×2): Skin closure
• DeBakey Tissue Forceps, 15 cm (×2): Delicate tissue handling
• Tissue Forceps 1×2 teeth, 14 cm (×2): General tissue handling

Category 4: Needle Holders

• Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder, 18 cm (×2): Deep suturing in body cavities
• Mayo-Hegar Needle Holder, 14 cm (×2): Superficial suturing
• TC Needle Holder, 18 cm (×1): For fine sutures 3-0 and finer

Category 5: Retractors

• Langenbeck Retractors, 35×20 mm (×4): Standard abdominal retraction
• Army-Navy Retractor (×2): Superficial wound retraction
• Richardson Retractor, medium (×2): Abdominal wall retraction
• Balfour Abdominal Retractor (×1): Self-retaining for open abdominal surgery

Category 6: Suction and Irrigation

• Yankauer Suction Tip (×2): Oral and wound suctioning
• Poole Abdominal Suction Tube (×1): Abdominal cavity suctioning

Category 7: Sponge and Towel Instruments

• Foerster Sponge Forceps / Ring Forceps (×4): Holding swabs and sponges
• Backhaus Towel Clamps (×6): Securing sterile drapes

Optional Add-Ons by Procedure

Add depending on the specific procedure: bowel clamps (Doyen), liver retractors (Deaver), vascular clamps (DeBakey bulldog), bone instruments for orthopedic access, etc.

Fizza Surgical — Complete General Surgery Sets

Fizza Surgical supplies complete general surgery instrument sets, individually configured to your tray list, in 316L stainless steel with CE/ISO certification. We also supply individual instruments for set completion or replacement. MOQ 1 set. DHL Express worldwide.