SMITH-PETERSEN x =9 mm 200mm 20cm (Ref BS 14-256-02), manufactured at the Fizza Surgical facility in Sialkot, Pakistan.

Marius Smith-Petersen, a Norwegian-American orthopaedic surgeon at Massachusetts General, developed the hip nail for femoral neck fracture fixation in the 1920s — a technique that defined modern hip fracture surgery for fifty years. His name attaches to a family of orthopaedic instruments including bone gouges, chisels, and osteotomes used today in hip arthroplasty, fracture fixation, and bone graft harvest. Smith-Petersen patterns are heavy robust instruments designed for cortical bone work; they remain standard in orthopaedic open-procedure sets. Tungsten carbide or hardened stainless cutting edges are standard in professional-grade variants.

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.