"This text is designed for perioperative personnel in all surgical disciplines. Surgeons, nurses, technologists, and technicians will find the design and collections in this book informative and user friendly. Books about surgical instrumentation have been in print for more than 100 years. However, none have offered comprehensive collections of instruments used with foundation sets for multiple specialties. The feature individual instruments without providing guidance for establishing or streamlining the set creation process."--Preface.

History of surgical instrumentation -- Anatomy and physiology of surgical instrumentation -- Categories of surgical instrumentation -- Considerations for instrument set assembly -- Soft tissue foundation sets -- Plastic surgery instrumentation -- General surgery instrumentation -- Gynecologic instrumentation -- Urologic instrumentation -- Basic bone and joint instrumentation -- Head and neck procedure instrumentation -- Neurosurgery instrumentation -- Cardiothoracic and vascular instrumentation -- Microsurgery instrumentation -- Endoscopic instrumentation -- Decontamination and sterilization.