Compact practical knowledge: an overview of surgical instruments This book offers all specialists in the operating room a compact overview of the most important surgical instruments and their instrumentation. Regardless of whether you are already experienced in the OR or the area is new to you: Here you will learn to recognize surgical instruments better and to use them safely. Benefit from the experienced authors and master your day-to-day work with confidence. A specialist book for all OR specialists that helps you familiarize yourself with new employees, provides suggestions for specialist training or to look up questions about the instruments. This book is a translation of the original German 3 rd  edition  1x1 der chirurgischen Instrumente  by Margret Liehn, published by Springer Verlag GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2017. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translationby the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.