General surgeryDissection and grasping
Kelly forceps
Straight or curved hemostatic forceps (like a curved Kocher), usually toothless, with transverse serrations. Very similar to the Crile forceps.
How it is used
Hemostasis (clamping bleeding vessels) and blunt dissection.
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.
Image: Stevegray; conversión Syed, Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 3.0. View original source.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.