Wagener Ear Hook — Mayo-Pattern Foreign-Body Hook

The hooked tip lifts tissue or sutures from below — a specialized geometry for retraction and suture manipulation. Catalogue reference EH 15-20-00.

The Mayo brothers — William James and Charles Horace — founded what became the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and lent their family name to a remarkable number of surgical instruments. Mayo scissors, the most common of the family, are heavy curved or straight dissecting scissors with thick blades for cutting fascia, suture, and tough tissue. The 14 cm and 17 cm lengths are most used. Mayo’s design philosophy emphasized robustness over delicacy: these are workhorses meant to outlast decades of autoclave cycles in a busy operating theatre. Curved Mayo scissors handle blunt and sharp dissection through fascial planes; straight Mayos are preferred for cutting suture and prepared tissue.

Manufacturing compliance is verified through ISO 13485:2016 certification (the international medical-device quality standard), CE marking under EU MDR 2017/745, and FDA establishment registration. Certificate copies and regulatory documentation are available on request for inclusion in hospital procurement files and EU technical documentation packages. Sterilization validation follows ISO 17665 for steam autoclave at 134 °C.