Books are a good place to start...

Essentials of General Surgery  RD 31 .E737 2005
Handbook of General Surgery Instruments REF.  RD32.3 .W437 2002
Instrumentation for the Operating Room : a photographic manual  REF. RD71 .B76 2003
Surgery: An Illustrated History REF. RD 19 .R88 1993
Surgery : Basic Science and Clinical Evidence   REF.  RD31 .S9115 2001
Surgical Positioning, Prepping, and Draping: includes Foley Catheter Insertion AV RD 32.7 S87 2001(Video)
Surgical Technology for the Surgical Technologist: a positive care approach RD 32.3 .S866 2004
Year Book of Surgery REF. RD 9 .Y4
Zollinger's Atlas of Surgical Operations  REF. RD41 .Z86 2003

Library catalog: UNICORN
        Suggested subject terms: surgery, surgical instruments, operations

Full text books online: eBooks

Online Encyclopedias

SCC History of Surgery Handout

Gale Database(journal, magazine and newspaper articles)
Health Sciences Databases (journal, magazine, newspaper and reference book articles)
Career and Technical (journal and magazine articles)

Spartanburg Community College Library General Health Websites Handout
http://library.sccsc.edu/handouts/genhealth.htm

Association of Surgical Technologists web site.
http://www.ast.org

Concise description of surgical technique including instrumentation, positioning, room set up, anatomy, dissection and repair. From Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University.
http://www.bgsm.edu/surg-sci/atlas/atlas.html

LUMEN: Structure of the Human Body (Loyola University Medical Center) Cross sectional analysis of human body
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/meded/grossanatomy/ga.html

YourSurgery.com.
http://www.yoursurgery.com

Spartanburg Community College's Surgical Technology Online Reserves
http://library.sccsc.edu/surgtech/

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