Differentiating Surgical Instruments

• More than 800 instruments and tips associated with official names, common nicknames, and descriptions of instrument features, categories, and uses:
  
  
  
  • Common types of clamping, grasping, cutting, and retracting instruments.
  
  
  • Instruments for specialized procedures (such as bowel, thyroid or breast surgery).
  
  
  • Cutting loops, and the parts that make up cytoscopes and resectoscopes.
  
  
  • Orthopedic drills and saw blades.
  
  
  • Instruments used in microscopic and endoscopic surgery.
  
  
  
  


• Organization based on surgical specialties.


• €œSurgical Sessions€ provide chapter review questions and critical thinking scenarios.