The Tweezers or Tweezers are as useful a tool for professionals as for individuals. This is a small pliers that can be used to perform all types of work requiring high precision, good visibility and good gripping ability, such as dissections or minor medical care. Usually made of stainless steel, it is easy to use and simple to maintain. It allows small elements to be grasped in areas that are difficult to access and to maintain precision in the gesture while limiting direct contact between the small elements grasped. Like any reusable stainless steel surgical instrument, which has been in contact with external elements or a patient, it is necessary to carry out a thorough cleaning, or even sterilization to avoid the risk of contamination.

Brucelle pliers, also known as Brucelle pliers, are small pliers used to perform all types of work requiring precision, when the fingers have reached their limit in terms of dexterity, while ensuring that the object caught between them is maintained. tips, thanks to optimal flexibility.

The Brucelle pliers are available in different sizes and models to be able to grip and hold, thanks to their branches which make spring, all kinds of parts or light fabrics, sometimes not bigger than a few tenths of a millimeter. They are formed on the same model as a tweezer. These are very thin and their ends, which are used for pinching, are very small and can fit into the tightest spaces. The Brucelle tweezers designate, in Switzerland and Quebec, the tweezers.

The Brucelle pliers are used in different fields:

• watchmaking: to select and manipulate small parts such as screws or components found in a watch;
• jewelry making;
• electricity ;
• electronics industry;
• micromécanique ;
• microelectronics;
• model making.

At home, it can be used to manipulate screws on computers, glasses or switches, grab collectable stamps and other small fragile objects, etc.

In the field of medicine, the Brucelle forceps are used in:

• surgery to grasp small elements in areas that are difficult to access while maintaining precision in the gesture while limiting direct contact between the small elements grasped;
• laboratory for handling small samples or dissections;
• medicine for minor precision medical care;
• dentistry and orthodontics.

The Brucelle pliers are easy to use and simple to maintain. Like any reusable surgical instrument, which has been in contact with external elements or even a patient, care must be taken to carry out a thorough cleaning, or even sterilization, to avoid the risk of contamination.

Precautions for use

• always keep the Tweezer clean;
• wash it either in a machine, or manually, or in an ultrasonic device;
• in case of manual washing, use a nylon brush;
• avoid sponges or metal brushes to clean this type of pliers;
• disinfect it before and after each use, by autoclaving at 134 ° C;
• to decontaminate it, adopt the immersion method using a disinfectant and a detergent, not attacking stainless steel ;
• before use, dry it well after rinsing.

Brucelle pliers are generally made of stainless steel, thus offering a high level of resistance, especially against liquids or fluids with which they could come into contact.

They come in different sizes (usually 13 and 16 centimeters in length) and models:

• with rounded, flat, curved, straight, etc. ;
• trapezoidal, tapering;
• with replaceable tips;
• covered with a rubber sheath;
• cubit, against cubit or not angled;
• with ergonomic sleeves to limit signs of fatigue in the hand that uses it, etc.