Title: Describe the history of surgical instrumentation.
Course: Sterile Processing Technician (14021) > Section: Exploring the World of Sterile Processing

Description should include

- Galen’s invention of basic surgical instrumentation
- development of field instrumentation
- classification of instruments (e.g., grasping and holding, retracting, clamping and occluding, ligating, cutting)
- general uses of modern surgical instrumentation.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What practices and methods influenced the development of surgical instruments?