Braithwaite Skin Graft Knife | 30.5cm/12″

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Braithwaite Skin Graft Knife

The Braithwaite’s Skin Graft Knife is available for surgeons with both preferential hand use, Right handed/Left handed grip enables to cut through skin graft precisely. It featuring an overall length of 12″ (30.5cm) and use replaceable Dermatome Blades to graft the skin.
The grooved roller bar oscillates from side to side as well as rotating. The graft thickness is controlled by rotating the adjuster nuts at the end of knife, this will move the roller bar up or down.

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Category: Skin Graft Knives

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The Braithwaite Handle (1955 Fenton Braithwaite) was a modification of the Humby and Bodenham Knives and was the first that did not need to be dismantled in order to replace the blade. The adjustment between the roller and the blade itself is achieved by two knurled collars mounted on the back of the handle. The Stainless steel blade is locked securely in the leaf spring holder. To fit a new blade one moves the safety catch in order to open the leaf and the blade can be inserted under the roller before reengaging the safety catch. There is a tendency for skin to roll up around the guard when cutting thin split skin grafts with the Braithwaite Handle however this can be corrected by placing traction on the cut skin otherwise the fine sheet of skin may tear. The roller must also move freely from side to side, requiring slack end-bearings that can reduce precision in the setting resulting in the graft sometimes becoming gradually thicker as the handle progresses. Two adjustments are necessary at either end of the handle to set the depth of cut and again if the setting is unequal the graft may be thicker on one side.

Reference: Ameer, F., Singh, A. K., & Kumar, S. (2013). Evolution of instruments for harvest of the skin grafts. Indian journal of plastic surgery : official publication of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India, 46(1), 28–35. https://doi.org/10.4103/0970-0358.113704

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