BS 5194-3 Surgical Instruments - Standard Test Method for Dissecting Forceps

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of BS 5194-3 testing. This part of BS 5194 specifies requirements for stainless steel cutting forceps used in surgery. BS 5194 is a European standard for surgical instruments. BS 5194-3 is the third part of the multi-part series outlining the stainless steel cutting requirements used in surgery to ensure that minimum performance criteria for cutting forceps are met.

BS 5194-3 for the forceps cutting specification is useful for:

• Dissecting forceps manufacturers;
• Test centers or any person involved in testing dissection forceps;
• Design engineers.

Dissecting forceps are used to hold tissues and other materials and to manipulate needles and other instruments while working. Dissecting forceps are used to hold tissues and other materials and to manipulate needles and other instruments while working.

BS 5194-3 assists you in marking material, hardness, heat treatment, corrosion resistance, design, workmanship, surface condition, packaging and cutting forces to improve the quality standard and durability of cutting forceps.

BS 5194-3 also provides a test method for corrosion resistance using a solution of copper sulfate and a test method for corrosion resistance using boiling water of cutting forceps.

By observing and complying with BS 5194-3, you can increase the effectiveness of dissecting forceps. It can also ensure the safety of patients and operators while working.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with BS 5194-3 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.