Modified USA Dressing Forceps 120mm — American Hand Surgery

Modified USA Dressing Forceps — 120mm American Hand Surgery

The 120mm Modified USA dressing forceps serves American hand-surgery teaching traditions — the procedures performed at the ~150 ACGME-accredited hand-surgery fellowship programmes that define American hand-surgery practice. The 12cm length is the American hand-surgery-tray default, calibrated to American hand-surgeon hand dimensions and instrument-preference norms.

American Society for Surgery of the Hand teaching

The American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) is the principal professional body for American hand surgeons, with approximately 4000 active members. ASSH-affiliated teaching programmes have standardised hand-surgery technique and instrument preference over decades. The 120mm Modified USA dressing forceps fits this teaching tradition’s pattern preferences — modified from the European-origin Adson with American-school adaptations.

The hand-surgery-specialty context

American hand surgery is dual-trained — orthopaedic-surgery-and-plastic-surgery-trained surgeons both practice the specialty. The Modified USA 120mm dressing forceps serves both training pathways, with the unified American-tradition pattern accommodating the operative ergonomics of both backgrounds.