Table 2.

Typical Equipment Required and Practical Considerations (All single use)

Basic	✓ Hand table
	✓ 1 small drape ✓ 1 large drape ✓ 1 extremity drape ✓ Scalpel plus 1 × 15 blade ✓ Fine toothed forceps ✓ 1 pack of small swabs ✓ 1 × 5ml syringe ✓ 1 × 21 gauge needle ✓ 1 × 25 gauge needle ✓ 5ml × 2% lignocaine with adrenaline 1:200 000 ✓ 1 × melanin dressing ✓ 1 pack dressing gauze ✓ 4 inch crepe bandage ✓ 1 × 3–0 silk skin suture & needle holder
Carpal Tunnel Decompression	✓ Self-retainer with ratchet (Wests) ✓ Second blade ✓ MacDonald dissector
Dupuytren's Contracture	✓ Alice forceps ✓ Small skin hooks × 2 ✓ Large skins hooks × 2
Ganglion Simple	✓ cat's-paw retractors
Ganglion Complex (radial artery territory, large dorsal wrist ganglia)	✓ Bipolar diathermy
Triggering Digit	✓ cat's-paw ratractors
Ulnar nerve decompression	✓ 1 × small sandbag ✓ 1 × large sandbag ✓ Nerve hook plus blunt and sharp scissors ✓ cat's-paw retractors
De Quervain's release	✓ cat's-paw retractors
Mucous Cyst	✓ single skin hooks ✓ small curette/ spoon
Available as necessary	✓ Artery forceps/ clips/ mosquito forceps ✓ Range of sutures ✓ Langenbeck retractors ✓ Nibblers ✓ Osteotomes ✓ Tendon/nerve hooks
Surgery on Digits	✓ Finger dressings (elasticated) ✓ 2 inch crepe bandage ✓ 5 ml × 2% lignocaine plain