LISTON 190mm 19cm (Ref BS 14-896-03), manufactured at the Fizza Surgical facility in Sialkot, Pakistan.

Robert Liston was a Scottish surgeon known for the speed of his nineteenth-century amputations — performed before reliable anaesthesia, when speed was the only mercy. His name today attaches to the heavy bone-cutting forceps used during amputation, bone resection, and rib cutting. The Liston bone forceps’ defining feature is the scissor-action heavy jaws with curved or straight cutting edges, often combined with a double-action joint for mechanical advantage. The Stille-Liston variant is particularly heavy, used for cutting large cortical bone. Lengths of 21 cm, 24 cm, and 28 cm are standard. Modern Liston forceps are made from hardened tool-grade stainless for the cutting edges to retain sharpness.

Sialkot has been the world’s primary cluster for surgical-instrument manufacturing since the late nineteenth century, when local steel workshops began supplying instruments to British military and civilian hospitals. Fizza Surgical’s facility continues that tradition, combining workshop craftsmanship with the metallurgy and quality systems modern medical regulation requires. Fizza products are exhibited at international medical-device trade fairs in Europe, the Middle East, and North America.