Farabeuf Periosteal Elevator

Farabeuf Periosteal Elevator — catalogue reference BS 14-530-01.

Louis Hubert Farabeuf, a nineteenth-century French anatomist and surgeon, lent his name to the simple double-ended hand retractor that remains a workhorse of general and orthopaedic surgery. Farabeuf retractors are sold in pairs — a left and right with identical curved blades on each end of a flat handle. Sizes are described by blade length: 12 cm, 14 cm, 15 cm. An assistant holds the retractor to expose superficial tissues during wound exploration, hernia repair, vascular access, and orthopaedic open reduction. The Farabeuf’s elegance is its simplicity: no ratchets, no springs, no moving parts to fail. Just two ergonomic blades on a sturdy stainless handle that outlasts most other instruments in the tray.

Fizza Surgical International has manufactured surgical instruments at its Sialkot, Pakistan facility since 1980 — more than four decades of continuous operation under one family ownership. The factory holds ISO 13485:2016 certification for medical devices and CE marking under EU MDR 2017/745, the regulatory baseline European hospitals and distributors require. FDA establishment registration covers exports to the United States.