Re: Can anyone identify the forceps?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Jul 25 11:14:51 2000
Leff forceps - designed purely for rotation and not extraction.
art
At Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>
>Obviously, I have never seen a Gigli saw. And now I own one.
>We still don't have a good answer for the forceps. Wow if this list can't
>identify them with certainty, they must be someones personal modification
>that never caught on.
>
>Dan
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gibbons, John [mailto:JGibbons@stfranciscare.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 7:50 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
>Subject: Re: Can anyone identify the forceps?
>
> I agree that the device at the end is a Gigli saw, but I suspect its
>intended use in that obstetrical era was symphisiotomy.
>
> John Gibbons
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>> At Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Braun, R. Daniel wrote:
>> >
>> >Can anyone identify the forceps in this photo at URL
>> >ftp://ftp.obgyn.net/pub/OB-GYN-L/surgicaltools1.jpg ? They look like an
>> >Elliott with a French lock and then they have that little device on the
>> end
>> >of the handles. I found them on e-bay and just bought this lot of
>> instruments.
>> >
>> >I think the device on the right end with the wire is a decapitation
>> device.
>> >Does anybody know for sure what it is? These will go in the Braun
>> >Obstetrical History Museum.
>> >
>> >Dan
>> >
>> >--
>> >R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG
>> >Clinical Professor
>> >Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
>> >Indiana U. School of Medicine
>> >Indianapolis, IN 46202
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>>
>> --
>> art fougner, md
>>
>> A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
>>
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art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
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