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To enable clear communication with the scrub nurse, paediatric surgeons of every level of experience should familiarise themselves with the names and the uses of the surgical instruments at their disposal. This chapter aims to provide the reader with a field guide to the commonly used paediatric surgical instruments and their uses.
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Howard Kelly
(1858 – 1943)
American surgeon and designer of the artery clip
An alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught obstetrics. Kelly moved to Johns Hopkins University when it opened its doors. He is one of The Four Doctors, the famous painting by John Singer Sargent of the four chiefs at Johns Hopkins University at that time. The other three Doctors are William Halstead (Surgery), William Welch (Pathology) and the great William Osler (Medicine).
Over the course of a stellar career he made many advances in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. A number of surgical procedures and instruments bear his name, including the most common surgical instrument known: Kelly’s forceps or clamp, also called the mosquito or artery clip.
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Amjad, B. (2013). A4 Surgical Instruments. In: Carachi, R., Agarwala, S., Bradnock, T.J., Lim Tan, H., Cascio, S. (eds) Basic Techniques in Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20641-2_4
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