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trephines - bone saws - 65/1 ID = Inside Diameter OD = Outside Diameter 65 small medium large Cutter removes a tiny cylinder Designed for bone biopsy. of bone around tip of wire. Can also be used to help remove broken bone screws Obturator helps to prevent and buried K-wire. potential blockage by residual tissue. gSource ID OD gS 65.3390 small 3mm 4mm ID OD gSource gS 65.3392 medium 4mm 5mm gS 65.3380 3mm 5mm gS 65.3394 large 6mm 7mm Bone Plug Cutter Michele Trephine 4 1/2" 7" gSource Gigli chain saws are intended for single use only due to flesh and bone which can become embedded in the chain saw. gS 65.7120 gS 65.7175 gS 65.7120 chain saw 9" [23cm] gS 65.7130 chain saw 12" [30cm] gS 65.7135 chain saw 16" [40cm] gS 65.7140 chain saw 20" [50cm] gS 65.7150 chain saw 28" [70cm] gS 65.7170 T-handle 2 1/2" gS 65.7175 loop style handle 3 1/2" Gigli Saw Blades and Handles gSource gS 65.7170 gSource® 65/2 - trephines - bone saws 65 straight left right straight gSource gS 65.3610 gS 65.3620 bayonet left gS 65.7213 13" gS 65.3630 bayonet right gSource Poppen Gigli Saw Guide Joseph Bone Saw 7" gS 65.8120 6 3/4" blade gS 65.7010 9" gS 65.8125 8" blade gSource gSource Langenbeck Metacarpal Liston Amputation Knife Saw gSource® trephines - bone saws - 65/3 65 gSource gSource gS 65.7440 11 1/2" gS 65.7431 13" Charriere Amputation Saw Satterlee Amputation Saw chrome ring handle chrome ring handle 8" stainless steel blade 10" stainless steel blade gSource gS 65.7450 14" handle & 2 blades gS 65.7452 10mm blade only gS 65.7454 14mm blade only gS 65.8100 12" gSource Charriere Amputation Saw Percy Amputation Shield chrome ring handle stainless steel blades gSource® 65/4 - trephines - bone saws did you know… ? 65 The Liston Amputation Knife, as shown on page 65/2, The Gigli Saw, as shown on page 65/1, is named for is a type of knife used in surgical amputation, the Leonardo Gigli, a nineteenth-century Italian physician intentional removal of a limb or body part. It is who used it while performing surgery. It is a flexible performed to remove diseased tissue, malignant wire saw used by surgeons for bone cutting, mainly tumors, or as a result of severe trauma to a body part, during amputations where bones have to be cut such as an arm, leg, hand, foot, finger or toe. smoothly at the level of amputation. It consists of long thin tempered steel blades arranged in an oval The knife was named after Robert Liston, a Scottish shape, with finger rings at either end. Gigli saws were surgeon noted for his skill and speed. In an era prior to also known to be kept hidden in the clothing of British anesthetics, having these skills made a difference secret agents during World War II who used them as in terms of a patient’s pain and survival. He is said to an escape device when needed. have been able to perform removal of a limb in an amputation in 28 seconds. Born in Florence in 1863, Dr. Gigli also received his degree in medicine and surgery in Florence in 1889. Born in 1794 in Scotland, he attended medical school He worked in Florence as an assistant to the at Edinburgh University. He became a surgeon at the professor of clinical pediatric surgery, and then as an Royal Infirmary and a lecturer at the University in assistant in obstetrics and gynecology under 1818. He earned a reputation not only in Scotland, Professor Domenico Chiara. After Professor Chiara’s but in Europe and America as a daring and successful death in 1891, Dr. Gigli left Italy and went to Paris to surgeon. It is said that "the gleam of his knife was work under Étienne Stéphane Tarnier, an obstetrician. followed so instantaneously by the sounds of sawing He then went to London and Wroclaw, Poland, where as to make the two actions appear almost he worked under Professor Henry Fritsch from 1892 simultaneous". In 1835, he became professor of to 1893. While in Wroclaw he was able to attend clinical surgery at University College, London. In surgery with Jan Mikulicz-Radecki. During this 1846 he used an anesthetic in a public operation in successful and rewarding period, Dr. Gigli proposed London in 1846, the first time this had been done. He the lateralized pubiotomy (Gigli's operation) for safe passed away in 1847. delivery of a fetus in cases of maternal pelvic deformities. Inspired by the sight of a jagged knife, he conceived his wire saw to simplify the procedure. In 1894 he successfully tested a modified saw type with a whalebone guide for the preparation of osteoplastic cranial flaps. He returned to Florence in 1894 to work at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, and continued as a proponent of the lateral pubiotomy using the wire saw, although he did not receive the support of his colleagues in Italy. He described the use of his saw for cutting other bones, except the skull, in 1897. Professor Alfred Obalinski of Kraków also described its use for craniotomy during the same year. In 1899 Dr. Gigli became director of the Santa Maria Nuovo Hospital. He resigned in 1901 and worked in private practice until he passed away in 1908. gSource®.