Device Category Dossier

Gouge, surgical

Device Category Dossier for Gouge, surgical. Australian ARTG records, sponsors, device class — compiled by arcimedes.

Surgical gouges are heavy-duty, hand-held instruments used to remove pieces of bone or other hard tissue during orthopaedic and plastic surgery procedures, with a convex profile and sharp, semi-lunar, bevelled cutting edge that is struck by a surgical mallet or hammer to impart an impacting force. These instruments are employed during orthopaedic and plastic surgical procedures to facilitate bone and hard tissue removal.