API BP Handle

API BP Handle

• Professionally certified
  
• Easy to use
  
• Light weight
• Uniquely designed – more comfortable, better grip
  
• Cost-effective and durable
• Made of high quality medical grade stainless steel
• Autoclavable

API Scalpel Handles (BP Handle)

An interchangeable handle of a scalpel designed to mount a compatible blade. Together, this device and the blade, become a single-bladed surgical instrument used for cutting or dissecting tissue

Scalpel Handles are intended to be used with surgical blades for tissue separation and other procedures that require a sharp surgical blade to puncture or cut. The scalpel Handle holds the scalpel blade, it is a small and extremely sharp instrument used for surgery and anatomical dissection.

• Type: BP Handle/Scalpel Handle
  
• Category: Oral Surgery
  
• Material: Stainless Steel
  
• Disposable/Reusable: Reusable

• 1 x Scalpel Handle

ATTACHING A SCALPEL BLADE

• Grip the blade With pliers, or similar, avoiding contact With the cutting edge.
• Hold the handle in your left hand With the bayonet fitting uppermost.
• Place blade partway over handle fitting and engage slots.
• Slide the blade until it clicks into position.
• To improve assembly, flex the blade slightly upwards when sliding onto the handle.

DETACHING SCALPEL BLADE

• Grip the blade with pliers or similar, at point A making sure that the cutting edge is facing
  away from the hand and body.
• Ensure the blade is pointing downwards and towards a surface and NOT towards yourself or others.
• Whilst holding the handle firmly lift the back edge of the blade With the pliers or forceps and slide away the handle.
• The preferred method would be a Swann-Morton blade remover device.

MAINTENANCE INSTRUCTIONS:

• Must clean after every use with warm water to remove blood, tissues, and mucus from the instruments.
• Ultrasonic cleaning is recommended for all the instruments specially articulated instruments such as forceps, rongeurs, etc.
• Use only standard and reputed brands of disinfectant solutions.