Surgical instrument

A surgical instrument is a medical device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it.

With the goal of optimizing surgical results and performing more difficult operations, more instruments continue to be invented in the modern era.

As surgery practice diversified, some tools are advanced for higher accuracy and stability while some are invented with the completion of medical and scientific knowledge.

[3] Most importantly, instruments were advanced to be readily and effectively sterilized by replacing wooden and ivory handles with metals.

[28][29][30] An important relative distinction regarding surgical instruments is the amount of bodily disruption or tissue trauma that their use might cause the patient.