Lister bandage scissors
A sturdy scissors with an angled blade and an elongated, blunt-tipped lower blade that slides underneath a bandage or dressing without touching the skin.
How it is used
Removing bandages, wraps and dressings on the ward, in the emergency department and in outpatient clinics: the blunt tip slides flat under the bandage, and the blade's angle keeps the handle clear of the area, allowing a long cut with no risk of cutting the patient.
Clinical tip
Not to be confused with the already-catalogued Littauer scissors or the oscillating cast saw: the Lister cuts soft bandages and dressings, not suture thread or rigid plaster/fiberglass casts.
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.
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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.