The Name on the Instrument: A Field Guide for the Surgeon Inventor (Paperback)
A field guide for the surgeon who wants to see an idea become an instrument. By Alexander C. Ebner, President and Founder of ACE Medical Company. Paperback, 136 pages, ISBN 979-8-9982814-0-2.
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About the book
Every surgeon has had the thought in the middle of a case: this instrument should work better. A few go on to sketch it, and fewer still see it made. The Name on the Instrument is a field guide for the surgeon who wants to be one of the few.
Alexander C. Ebner has spent his career at the bench with surgeons and German instrument makers, and has personally designed, developed and manufactured more than seventy unique surgical instruments. This book distills what he has learned about taking an idea from a sketch on a napkin to a finished instrument with a surgeon's name on it, and about the part most people underestimate: paying for it.
Written in plain language for practicing surgeons, residents, engineers and anyone who works alongside them.
Details
Paperback, 136 pages
Publication date: October 13, 2026
ISBN 979-8-9982814-0-2
Library of Congress Control Number 2026925166
Published by ACE Medical Company, Orange Park, Florida