Accordingly, to list surgical instruments follows certain patterns, such as a description of the action it performs (for example, scalpel, hemostat and other surgical instrument sets), the name of its inventor(s) (for example, the Kocher forceps), or a compound scientific name related to the kind of surgery (for example, tracheotome).
Surgical instrumentation is somewhat interchangeably used with surgical instruments, but it’s meaning in medical jargon is really the activity of providing assistance to a surgeon with the proper handling of surgical instruments during an operation, by a specialized professional, usually a nurse. |