Sklar Bethune Rib Shears, 13-1/2 Inch
A 13-1/2 inch heavy duty surgical shears used to cut through rib bone, giving surgeons access during thoracic and cardiac surgery.
The Sklar Bethune Rib Shears is a heavy duty cutting instrument used in thoracic surgery to cut through rib bone, a step often needed to gain adequate access to the chest cavity or to remove a section of rib for grafting or specimen purposes. Measuring 13-1/2 inches, its long handles provide the leverage needed to shear through dense bone with a controlled, single motion, reducing the effort and the number of attempts required compared to a smaller instrument.
Thoracic and cardiac surgeons rely on rib shears of this scale during procedures such as thoracotomy, rib resection and certain cardiac approaches where wider surgical access through the chest wall is necessary. The robust jaw and pivot mechanism are built to withstand the repeated high force cutting action bone shears undergo throughout a case, and the instrument's size and weight reflect the demands of that job compared to soft tissue scissors used elsewhere in the same procedure.
As with other Sklar heavy duty surgical instruments, it is manufactured for repeated clinical use with standard hospital sterilization between cases, and is a standard fixture in thoracic surgery instrument trays.
