Device Category Dossier

Retractor, orthopaedic

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

Retractors are surgical instruments intended to separate and/or draw back tissues to permit access to skeletal structures for examination or intervention. These self-retaining instruments are temporarily used to expose tissue near or next to the spine , providing access through which surgical instruments can be manipulated and the spinal site visualised.