Ligating Clips
Hemoclips · Hemostatic Clips · Vessel Clips · Ligaclips · Surgical Clips · Titanium Clips · Hem-o-lok
Small V- or U-shaped metal or plastic clips held in a row in a plastic cartridge. Cartridges are color coded by clip size (colors vary by maker).
On the table
What it does, the lengths it comes in and what experienced techs know about it.
What it’s for
Close off (occlude) a blood vessel or duct, such as the cystic duct and artery, in place of a tie. They are used in open, laparoscopiclap-uh-roh-SKOP-ikDone through a few small cuts in the abdomen with a thin camera and long instruments, instead of one large opening.lapar/o abdomen-scopic viewingFull entry and robotic surgery, in neurosurgery for vessels that are hard to reach. A structure to be divided gets at least two clips (one or more on each side) and is then cut between them.
Lengths and variants
Sizes from micro and small through medium, medium-large and large. Materials: stainless steel, titanium, tantalum, or absorbable or nonabsorbable polymer (locking plastic clips). Clips come in cartridges loaded onto a reusable applier one at a time, or preloaded in disposable multi-fire appliers for open and endoscopicen-doh-SKOP-ikDone with an endoscope, a thin tube with a light and camera passed into the body.endo- within-scopic viewingFull entry use.
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- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 11 (Surgical Instruments), p. 200
- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 19 (Surgical Skills II: Intraoperative and Immediate Postoperative Period), p. 421
- Fuller JK. Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice. 8th ed. Chapter 20 (Minimally Invasive Surgery), p. 443
- Association of Surgical Technologists. Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. 4th ed. Chapter 11 (Wound Healing, Sutures, Needles, and Stapling Devices), p. 318
- Rothrock JC. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 21 (Neurosurgery), p. 787
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