Deep Gelpi Self-Retaining Retractor – 4 Sharp Prongs, 90°

This is the four-prong answer to the same problem the single-prong Gelpi solves, and the difference is what the tissue can take. One sharp prong under the tension of a self-retaining retractor concentrates the entire load at a point — fine in dense fascia, but it pulls through looser or thinner tissue over the course of a long case. Four prongs divide that load, so each engages lightly while the retractor as a whole holds just as firmly.

The speed-lock handle changes how the retractor is used rather than just how it is set. A conventional ratchet is adjusted a click at a time; a speed-lock releases and resets in one movement, so the surgeon can slacken the retractor, reposition tissue and re-tension it quickly. That matters because a self-retaining retractor left at one setting for hours holds constant pressure on the wound edges, and being able to ease it briefly is how that is managed.

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