Surgical instruments

Abstract

Introduction. Surgical instruments – are weapons that lie in surgeon’s hand and are intended to produce some influence on patient’s tissue in order to eradicate the disease and also to restore the function of the body. The vast number of surgical instruments have the same construction, function and technique production as modern instruments and are known from the 16th – 18th centuries. There were a lot of outstanding events in the 20th century, one of them was the apearence of endoscopic and miniinvazive surgery. The technologies of endoscopic and miniinvazive surgery influienced the next step in the development of new techniques, that allow to perform radical interventions through the minimal traumas for the patient or without large cuts of skin and tissues. Purpose. Definition, description and enumeration of surgical instruments according to the applied fields of modern surgery.