Device Category Dossier

Retractor, general-purpose, self-retaining

Device Category Dossier for Retractor, general-purpose, self-retaining. Australian ARTG records, sponsors, device class — compiled by arcimedes.

Self-retaining retractors are one-piece surgical instruments with two legs featuring distal hooked blades and a self-retaining mechanism that maintains the legs in an open position for retraction. They are hand-operated instruments intended to separate and draw aside the margins of a wound or incision to allow access to tissues and organs during open surgery, with applications across general surgical, abdominal, and thoracic operations.