Sklar Suture Wire Cutting Scissors, Angled
A dedicated wire cutting scissors used to cut surgical suture wire cleanly, available in straight delicate or angled serrated configurations.
The Sklar Suture Wire Cutting Scissors is built to cut through suture wire without the blade damage that wire cutting causes to a standard tissue scissors. This listing spans two configurations, a four and a half inch straight, delicate pattern for finer gauge wire and close work, and a four and three quarter inch angled, serrated pattern with blunt tips for heavier wire and a more direct cutting angle.
Instruments of this kind are used in orthopaedic and cardiothoracic surgery wherever fixation, cerclage or sternal wire needs trimming during the procedure, as well as in veterinary surgery using wire based closure techniques. Surgeons and surgical technologists on orthopaedic and cardiac trays typically keep a dedicated wire cutting scissors separate from their tissue cutting instruments to protect both cutting edges.
As a reusable stainless steel instrument, it is cleaned, inspected and steam sterilized between cases as part of the relevant surgical tray.
