Rubber Shods
Shods · Clamp Shods · Clamp Jaw Covers · Clamp Covers · Jaw liners
Short pieces of soft rubber or silicone tubing that slide over the jaws of a clamp. Sterile ready-made covers come in colors and sizes; linen or woven cotton covers (shoelaces) are also used.
On the table
What it does and what experienced techs know about it.
What it’s for
Cushion a clamp's jaws so it holds without crushing or slipping. They let a clamp grip bowel, vessels, tubing or sutureSOO-cherA stitch, or the thread used to stitch, that holds the edges of a wound or incision together.Full entry gently, for example on a Doyen bowel clamp or on a mosquito holding suture. In a VP shuntSHUNTA passage that moves blood or other fluid from one place to another, either made by a surgeon or present in the body.Full entry , a clamp with a rubber shod may close off the end of the ventricleVEN-trih-kulOne of the two lower chambers of the heart, or one of the fluid-filled spaces inside the brain.Full entry catheter after it is placed to stop cerebrospinal fluidser-uh-broh-SPY-nul FLOO-idThe clear, watery fluid that bathes and cushions the brain and spinal cord.cerebr/o brainspin spine-al relating toFull entry loss.
What experienced techs know
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- Phillips N. Surgical Instrumentation. 2nd ed. Basic Cardiothoracic and Vascular Procedures, pdf p. 391
- Nemitz R. Surgical Instrumentation: An Interactive Approach. 3rd ed. Doyen Intestinal Forceps, p. 81
- Rutherford C. Differentiating Surgical Instruments. 3rd ed. p. 39
- AST. Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. 4th ed. Chapter 22 (Cardiac Surgery), p. 1038
- AST. Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist. 4th ed. Chapter 24 (Neurosurgery), p. 1165
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