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Scalpel Handles

At Surgins, Scalpel is a small, very sharp-bladed surgical knife used for making precise incisions in tissue. It’s a fundamental tool in various fields, including surgery, anatomy, podiatry and various handicrafts.

Surgical scalpels consist of two parts, a blade and a handle. The handles are often reusable, with the blades being replaceable. In medical applications, each blade is only used once (sometimes just for a single, small cut).

Scalpel Handle:

The handle is also known as a “B.P. handle”, named after Charles Russell Bard and Morgan Parker, founders of the Bard-Parker Company.

Reusable handle is usually made of Stainless Steel.

The handle of surgical scalpels come in several basic types.

The first is a flat handle used in the #3 and #4 handles. The #7 handle is more like a long writing pen, rounded at the front and flat at the back. A #4 handle is larger than a #3. #5 handles are also common, and are round, with a patterning to ensure a non-slip grip.

 Scalpel Blades:

Scalpels come with different blade shapes and sizes (identified by numbers like #10, #15, etc.) to suit specific surgical needs. Blades are manufactured with a corresponding fitment size so that they fit on only one size reusable handle.

Scalpel blades are usually made of hardened and tempered steel, stainless steel, or high carbon steel

A lancet has a double-edged blade and a pointed end for making small incisions or drainage punctures.

There are various scalpel blade removers on the market that allows users to safely remove blades from the handle, instead of dangerously using fingers or forceps.

Surgins UK offers a broad range of Re-usable Scalpel handles which address most of the surgical needs.