Maumenee tying forceps

Maumenee

tying forceps

Katena has added Maumenee design to its portfolio of tying forceps.These forceps, with grooved interlocking jaws, are designed to securely grasp today’s very delicate sutures.Round handles with longitudinal serrations provide positive control in the surgeon’s hand, and a guide pin keepsthe jaws aligned during suturing. Theseforceps are available with straight (KS-5234)or angled jaws (KS-5235).For further information, contact Gordon Dahl at 800225-1195.

Ten-facet

diamond

step knife

Katena introduces a new lo-facet diamond knife for cataract and glaucoma surgery.It featuresa 1 mm wide blade with 5 exquisitely sharp cutting edgesand is available with retractable handle for freehand cutting or with a calibrated step knife handle. The freehand model (K2-6568)featuresa titanium nitride-coated retractable handle. The step knife (K2-6548)has a highly polished single footplate and 8 precalibrated depth settings of 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 mm for making a groove, for dissecting a flap or tunnel, and for a paracentesisstab incision. For further information, contact Gordon Dahl at 800-225-1195.

Extra delicate implants

inserting

forceps for foldable

intraocular

lens

Designed by Lucia Buratto, MD, of Milan, Italy, Katena’s extra delicate direct action forceps are ideal for inserting folded acrylic and thin silicone intraocular lensesthrough small incisions. They feature very smoothly polished, well-rounded jaws to prevent scoring acrylic lens surfaces.For further information contact Gordon Dahl at 800-225-1195.

INSlatlT

The Journal of the American

Society of Ophthalmic

Registered Nurses, Inc.

Volume XXIII, No. 3, September 1998

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