Cooley vascular forceps
A long, atraumatic dissecting forceps with ridged tips that grip vascular tissue without cutting or damaging it, designed by surgeon Denton Cooley.
How it is used
Used to handle and grasp delicate vascular and cardiac tissue during cardiovascular surgery, as an alternative or complement to DeBakey forceps.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-02.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.