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Yu-Holtgrewe Malleable Retractor Blade

9-5001 fits Balfour self-retaining retractors The malleable blade is bent about 70 to 80 degrees to provide depth
9-5002 fits Bookwalter self-retaining retractors of retraction. A slight bend in the 2 ends of the blade provides a
“toeing-in˝ effect, trapping the Foley catheter and balloon within the
Malleable Yu-Holtgrewe retractor blade (designed by H. Logan bladder. After positioning the malleable blade, with the shaft of the
Holtgrewe, George W. Yu and Genevieve N. Jacobs) fits on standard Foley catheter trapped in the groove, the arm of the blade is engaged
Balfour or Bookwalter self-retaining retractors. The central groove over the set screw of the self-retaining retractor and the blade is
traps the bladder, Foley catheter and its balloon in position without pulled cephalad to the maximum desired position. The wing nut of
use of a laparotomy pad. For proper retraction, the Foley balloon the retractor is then tightened. The additional maneuver of applying
should be inflated to 40 ml. posterior pressure with a sponge stick on the retracted and stretched
anterior prostate and bladder wall exposes the retropubic space.

Retractor blade

Pubis
Foley balloon
(40 cc)

Puboprostic
ligament
Bladder

Dorsal vein
complex Prostate

9-5001

9-5002

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