Busch umbilical cord scissors
Curved, blunt-tipped scissors, often with one serrated blade, designed specifically for cutting the umbilical cord.
How it is used
Cuts the umbilical cord right after delivery, once it is already occluded with a cord clamp (or between two clamps); the curved, blunt tip reduces the risk of injuring the newborn's skin.
Clinical tip
Not to be confused with the already-catalogued umbilical cord clamp: the clamp occludes the vessels, while these scissors are the instrument that makes the cut, always on the placental side of the clamp.
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 2026-10-25.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.