A group of his patients and colleagues formed a drinking club called the “Guinea Pig Club”, which still meets for the occasional beer 65 years later. Sir Archibald McIndoe was a plastic surgeon from New Zealand, best known for his work treating RAF fighter pilots with major burns during WWII. Less-frequently encountered, a toothed variety is also available. Medium-length fine non-toothed forceps (15cm) widely used in general surgery and vascular surgery. Debakey then underwent his own self-named procedure and survived at the age of 97! 1 Figure 2. Similarly, he devised the DeBakey procedure for aortic dissections. As well as inventing his forceps, DeBakey was first to recognise the link between smoking and lung cancer and he performed the first-ever carotid endarterectomy. Michael Ellis DeBakey was an American cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon who, in a career spanning 75 years and 60,000 operations, revolutionized his speciality. Long non-toothed forceps (18cm) widely used in general surgery and vascular surgery (Figure 2). You might also be interested in our surgical flashcard collection which contains over 500 flashcards that cover key surgical topics. Nowadays, most instruments tend to be known by a single universally accepted name however, cases of alternative names have also been included below.
This is because historically, surgeons and manufacturers wanted to cash in on the lucrative business of “inventing” and patenting useful surgical instruments (which were often remarkably similar to one another). To further complicate things some generic names may refer to more than one instrument, and some instruments have several different eponymous names. Unfortunately, it is not possible to describe all surgical instruments in generic terms. In addition to their eponymous name, instruments are often also referred to with a generic name, such as “fine-toothed dissecting forceps” for Adson’s, or “large curved handheld retractor” for a Deaver.
Here, we have compiled a list of common eponymously-named instruments as well as a little information about the surgeon from which they are named – this may help act as a memory aid. Despite there being a drive to move away from the use of eponyms, many surgical instruments are named after the surgeon who first designed and patented them.
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