Orthopedic surgery is a lengthy procedure. During the surgery, the surgeon needs many general instruments to lend support or remove an injured bone or a joint.  So, a surgeon uses general instruments as a help to insert the main implants. Without these many instruments, a surgeon cannot perform orthopedic surgery such as hip replacement surgery. These instruments are in addition to the special instruments. 

HEMC Ortho, a leading manufacturer and exporter of orthopedic implants & instruments, is known for its global standards of general instruments India and special instruments making capacities. The company fulfills the domestic demands for the instruments. It caters to the surgical instrument needs of overseas markets as well. There is a wide range of general instruments  available to the surgeons. During the surgery, its every phase requires general instruments. Right from cutting open the skin and reaching to the injured bone area only precise instruments should be used. 

Types of general instruments

Here are some major instruments along with their description.

Wire and pin instruments – These include wire twisters, cutters, tighners, bows, and chucks

Universal screw driver set – These instruments include multiple sizes of straight, hex, torx, cross/cruciate, handle and sterilization case etc.

Surgical screw extraction set – This set features gouges, hooks, extractors, forceps, reamers, bolts, coupling handle with a storage tray and others.

Arthroscopy instruments – Crucial instruments like punches, scoops, graspers, hooks, scissors, biopsy Rongeurs, elevators and many more.

Bone clamps and forceps – This category of general instruments India include stagbeetle, reduction, vogen, perforating, and dingman, lewin, holding forceps, lane and more.

Bone mill – This set includes table clamp, cutting drums, body with handle, push block, lock nut and others.

Charnley style hip retractor system – Such a system of instruments includes mobile body assemblies, wedges, retractors, blades and others

Large bone curettes – These cutters include deep Gelpi Retractors with working ends from 3″ to 5″, in 45 and 90 degree angles.

Mallets – Mallet instruments are phenolic and aluminum handles, cloward, mead, Colin, cottle, partach, hajek, heath and more lead-filled heads in different styles.

Pilers slap hammer and wire – These instruments feature round, flat, and needle nose pilers and long jaw, wire and screw/ pin removal, slip point, and many more.

These are some of the few general instruments.  Other major instruments used in a variety of surgery procedure such as hip prosthesis include Burn Bone, Curette with Fibre Handle, Chiesel Stilly Type, Chiesel With Fibre Handle, Gouge with Fibre Handle Straight/Curved, Howarth Elevator Die, Smith Peterson Osteotome, Retractor, Backman Adson11½, Curette, Volkman Double ended, Curette, Elevator, Doyen’s, Lever for Bone, Lanes types S.S. with Serrated End, Lever for Bone, and Lanes Type

Global quality standards met

HEMC Ortho follows the standards laid down for CE, FDA and URS certifications. We employ only the highly qualified staff to make sure that all the quality standards are followed. Most importantly, the material used for making the instruments too is of high standards. Mostly, We use high grade stainless steel and titanium.