"Inspecting Surgical Instruments, An Illustrated Guide, authored by Rick Schultz, President and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Surgical Instruments Corp. is a useful text book for healthcare professionals. The fully illustrated book contains over 250 detailed color photos. The book serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, including, surgeons, operating room nurses, surgical technologists, sterile processing professionals, and veterinarians. In addition to the inspection process, the book covers the surgical instrument repair process, testing standards, instrument handling tips and more. Mr. Schultz is a lecturer, inventor, and leading educator in the surgical instrument field and has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Spectrum Surgical Instruments since acquiring the company in 1986. The company, located in Stow, OH offers surgical instruments and surgical instrument repair services." - product description.

Historians have examined the development of surgical techniques and of the surgical profession itself, but have paid scant attention to the tools that made surgery. Surgeon and historian Kirkup (honorary curator, Royal College of Surgeons, UK) demonstrates how surgical instruments as sophisticated as ultrasound or lasers began as teeth, mouth, fists, fingernails, and fingers. Far from being a compendium drawn from instrument catalogs, this volume is a masterpiece of scholarship. The instruments are situated in the surgical theory and practice of their times. Kirkup's skill and devotion in his presentation and description raise the work from a register to a natural history of the instruments. (The only caveat is that some pictures are not for the squeamish.) An extensive bibliography and an excellent index add to the book's value.

Here’s a close-up look at more than 800 cutting, clamping, grasping, retracting, and other surgical instruments. Full-color photographs of the individual surgical instruments and their tips help you learn to distinguish among them.