Disposable Piercing Guide - WPTC12
Disposable surgical instruments are single-use medical devices that are used during surgery and discarded after use. Some examples of disposable surgical instruments include:
1. Scalpel 2. Tweezers 3. Scissors 4. Needle 5. Suture material 6. Surgical drapes 7. Surgical masks 8. Surgical gloves 9. Ironing pen 10. Trocar and cannula.
10. Laparoscopic instruments: Used for minimally invasive surgeries, these instruments include a camera and specialized tools for performing surgery through small incisions.
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2. Forceps: A tool used for grasping and holding tissues or organs during surgery.
3. Retractors: Surgical instruments used to hold open incisions or wounds to provide better visibility for the surgeon.
4. Scissors: Used for cutting tissues and sutures during surgery.
5. Hemostats: Used to clamp blood vessels and prevent bleeding during surgery.
6. Suction devices: Used to remove fluids or debris from the surgical site.
7. Needles: Used to suture or stitch wounds.
8. Electrocautery: A tool that uses an electrical current to cut or coagulate tissues during surgery.
9. Endoscopes: Used for minimally invasive surgeries, these instruments allow the surgeon to see inside the body without making large incisions.
Behind the Scenes with the Bees
It's late August now, and even the early hours of the morning feel like they're drenched in the sun’s heat. At MaMa Jean's East Sunshine location, there's a hidden gem—a secret garden buzzing with life. Nestled among vibrant flowers and overgrown lavender, this garden holds a little-known treasure: three honeybee hives. Most days, the bees quietly go about their business, pollinating plants and turning nectar into honey. But today is special—today, the hives are ready. For the beekeepers, it's an exciting day because they'll be harvesting the honey.
Harvesting honey is the sweetest part of beekeeping. This sticky, golden reward is the result of countless hours spent maintaining a healthy hive. Since the first blooms of April, the honeybees at MaMa Jean's have been busy collecting pollen and nectar. These bees forage within a five-mile radius of their hive, making the honey from our MaMa Jean bees as local as it gets in Springfield!
Honeybees naturally produce more honey than they need to survive the winter. It's only from this surplus that MaMa Jean’s will be harvesting. Professional beekeeper Jeffrey Maddox is here to guide us through the process.
"Beekeeping is all about managing space," Maddox explains. He ensures the bees have enough room to make honey without overcrowding the hive. Maddox has been a professional beekeeper since 2008 and served as President of The Beekeepers Association of the Ozarks from 2014 to 2016. He looks after over a hundred local hives, ensuring each colony thrives year-round. His busiest season is April through August.
Each hive at MaMa Jean’s consists of boxes, or "honey supers," which contain frames for the bees to build their wax foundation on. As the bees fill the frames with honey, additional supers are added to provide more space. Maddox leaves 40-50% of the honey behind for the bees to eat during the winter.
To harvest safely, Maddox uses a smoker to gently puff smoke into the air, calming the bees. He then places a cloth board sprayed with a natural fumigant on top of the hive, driving the bees to the bottom and leaving the supers above empty and ready to remove.
Carefully, Maddox pulls a frame from the super. He demonstrates how the bees have built a wax comb, filling it with honey and capping it with wax when full. "These creatures are fascinating," Maddox remarks. "You've got 40,000 bees all adding wax to this comb. No one is directing the operation. It's like asking 40,000 people to build a house, each with a brick, but no one tells them what kind of house it is. Yet, it turns out the same way every time. How do they do that?"
MaMa Jean’s co-owner, Diana Hicks, helps Maddox remove the full honey supers and carry them to the truck. Maddox covers the supers with a cloth that has a wire funnel to allow any remaining bees to return to their hive. Once the supers are loaded, Hicks and Maddox head out to Beecharmer Farms, where professional beekeeper Valorie will help us extract the honey.
Valorie, or Val as her friends call her, owns Beecharmer Farms north of Springfield near Ebenezer, Missouri. She’s an enthusiastic beekeeper and a great mentor to new beekeepers in the area. Since 2007, she’s been running her "Honey House," helping local beekeepers extract their honey.
Val calls her automated uncapper machine "the Cadillac" of uncappers. This machine swiftly removes the wax caps from each frame. The knives are heated to keep the honey warm and flowing smoothly. "It's a sticky situation," Diana jokes as everyone gets to work.
Maddox and Hicks perform quality control, manually uncapping any missed cells after the frames pass through the machine. All the honey is collected in a tilted tray that filters it into a "china cap," removing any wax chunks. Not a single drop of this liquid gold goes to waste!
Val has two 20-frame extractors. Each uncapped frame is placed inside the extractor before Val starts the machine. Centrifugal force pushes the honey to the sides of the tank, dripping to the bottom where it flows through a filter into a 5-gallon bucket.
"Honey is like wine," Maddox says. "Even if you get the same wine from the same winery, it varies from year to year. Bees forage on different blooms, producing different honeys." The beekeepers explain how batches differ in taste, color, and flavor profile depending on the hive and location.
Back in the hive, the honeybees use their wings to dehydrate the nectar into honey. For the honey to remain shelf-stable and not ferment, the moisture content must be 18% or lower. A honey refractometer measures the moisture content, and our MaMa Jean’s bees consistently pass the test.
As Hicks pours the honey into each bottle, the satisfaction of a job well done fills the room. It's been an enjoyable and educational afternoon in the honey house, and we're grateful to Maddox and Val for their guidance. With jars full of honey, we wrap up this season's honey production and extraction.
Stop by our store today to pick up your own bottle of BEEver Honey! We’re buzzing with excitement about this third release of raw, pure, small-batch honey. Grab a few jars for yourself and as gifts for friends and family—while supplies last!