As Filed:  July 1, 1996                        SEC File No.
===========================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                   FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                          SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                          ---------------------------

             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          Utah                                  87-0468225
- -------------------------               -------------------------
(State or other jurisdiction of               (IRS Employer
incorporation or organization)             Identification No.)


2801 South Decker Lake Lane
Salt Lake City, Utah 84119                          84119
- ----------------------------------------     --------------------
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)          (Zip Code)

                   Nonqualified Stock Options
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

Todd B. Crosland, 2801 South Decker Lake Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    (Name and address of agent for service)
                    
                         (801) 974-5555
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)


                        Calculation of Registration Fee
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                     Proposed        Proposed maximum
       Title of securities      Amount to be     maximum offering    aggregate offering      Amount of
         to be registered       registered(1)    price per share            price           registration
                                                                                                fee

<S>                                <C>                <C>                  <C>                <C>
Common Stock, par value $0.001     30,000             $2.00                $60,000            $100.00
</TABLE>

[FN]
(1)     Pursuant to rule 416, there are also being registered such additional
  securities as may become issuable as a result of antidilution provisions.

                   Page 1 of    consecutively numbered pages,               
                     including exhibits pages   through   .


                            SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                 Cross Reference Sheet Pursuant to Rule 404(a)

     Cross-reference between items of Form S-8 and the prospectus incorporated
as part of this registration statement.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Registration Statement Item Number and Heading            Prospectus Heading
- ----------------------------------------------            ------------------

<S>                                                       <C>
1.    Plan Information....................................Section 10(a)
                                                          Prospectus

2.    Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
      Information.........................................Section 10(a)
                                                          Prospectus

3.    Incorporation of Documents by Reference.............INCORPORATION OF
                                                          DOCUMENTS BY
                                                          REFERENCE

4.    Description of Securities...........................INCORPORATION OF
                                                          DOCUMENTS BY
                                                          REFERENCE

5.    Interests of Named Experts and Counsel..............Not Applicable

6.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers...........INDEMNIFICATION
                                                          OF DIRECTORS AND
                                                          OFFICERS

7.    Exemption for Registration Claimed..................Not Applicable

8.    Exhibits............................................EXHIBITS

9.    Undertakings........................................UNDERTAKINGS
</TABLE>


                                    PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                    INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") by Surgical Technologies, Inc., a Utah corporation
("Surgical"), pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), are hereby incorporated by reference in this Prospectus:

          (1)  The annual report of Surgical on form 10-K for its fiscal year
     ended March 31, 1996;

          (2)  The description of the Common Stock of Surgical contained in its
     registration statement on Form 8-A, SEC File No. 0-18160, filed with the
     Commission on December 4, 1989, pursuant to section 12(g) of the Exchange
     Act.

     All documents filed by Surgical pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or
15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement
which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold, or which
deregisters all such securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof
from the date of filing of such documents.

                   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     The following is a brief summary of certain indemnification provisions of
Surgical's articles of incorporation, its bylaws, and the general corporation
law of the state of Utah.  This summary is qualified in its entirety by
reference to the text thereof.

     The articles of incorporation of Surgical provide for indemnification of
Surgical's officers to the full extent permitted by the Utah Revised Business
Corporation Act (the "Utah Law") or any other applicable law that may be in
effect and as set forth in Surgical's bylaws.  The articles of incorporation of
Surgical also provide for indemnification of Surgical's officers, employees,
fiduciaries, and agents to the extent provided in Surgical's bylaws or
authorized by the board of directors.  Utah Law permits indemnification of
directors if the director acted in good faith and believed his conduct was in,
and not opposed to, the corporation's best interests and, in the case of any
criminal proceeding, such director had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.  Utah Law provides for mandatory indemnification and
court-ordered indemnification to directors and officers in certain
circumstances.  Further, under Utah Law, a corporation may indemnify an officer,
employee, fiduciary, or agent who is not a director to a greater extent than
directors, provided such indemnification is not contrary to public policy.
Surgical's bylaws provide for such indemnification to the fullest extent
permitted by law.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to members of the board of directors, officers, employees, or
persons controlling Surgical pursuant to the foregoing provisions, Surgical has
been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.

                                    EXHIBITS
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
              SEC
 Exhibit   Reference
   No.        No.                            Description                          Location

  <S>       <C>         <C>                                                       <C>
   4.01        4        Specimen Common Stock Certificate                         Incorporated
                                                                                  by reference(1)

   5.01     5 & 24      Letter opinion, including consent, of Kruse, Landa &      This Filing
                        Maycock, L.L.C., regarding legality of Common Stock   
                        to be issued pursuant to the Registration Statement.

  24.01       24        Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, auditors for Surgical     This Filing
                        Technologies, Inc.                                        

  25.01       25        Powers of Attorney                                        See signature
                                                                                  page to
                                                                                  Registration
                                                                                  Statement
</TABLE>

[FN]

(1)Incorporated by reference from Surgical's registration statement on Form S-4
  filed with the Commission, SEC File No. 333-3243.


                                  UNDERTAKINGS
REGULATION S-K

     Post-Effective Amendments [Item 512(a)]

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement, to include
     any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
     previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change
     to such information in the Registration Statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
     new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
     the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.
          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.

     Filings Incorporating Subsequent Exchange Act Documents by Reference [Item
51(b)]

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of any employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to section 15(a) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     Filing of Registration Statement on Form S-8 [Item 512(h)]

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit, or proceeding) is asserted by
such director, officer, or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction, the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.


                                   SIGNATURES
                                   
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the city of Salt Lake, state of Utah, on the 21st day of June,
1996.

                                   SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.


                                   By     /s/ Rex Crosland
                                     ----------------------------           
                                     Rex Crosland, President

                               
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Todd B. Crosland and Rockwell D. Schutjer, and
each of them, with power of substitution, as his attorney-in-fact for him, in
all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement and to
file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitutes may do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in
the capacities indicated on this 21st day of June, 1996.

                                        /s/ Rex Crosland
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Rex Crosland, Chairman, President,
                                   Director, and Chief Executive Officer
                                   (principal executive officer)

                                        /s/ Rockwell D. Schutjer
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Rockwell D. Schutjer
                                   Vice President-Operations,
                                   Treasurer, Director
                                   (principal operations officer)

                                        /s/ Todd B. Crosland
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Todd B. Crosland
                                   Vice President-Finance, Director
                                   (principal financial and accounting
                                   officer)
                                   
                                   
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Reed Fogg, Director
                                   
                                   
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Donald A. Spring, Director
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As Filed:  July 1, 1996                        SEC File No.
===========================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                                   FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                          SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                          ---------------------------

             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

          Utah                                  87-0468225
- -------------------------               -------------------------
(State or other jurisdiction of               (IRS Employer
incorporation or organization)             Identification No.)

2801 South Decker Lake Lane
Salt Lake City, Utah 84119                          84119
- ----------------------------------------     --------------------
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)          (Zip Code)

                   Nonqualified Stock Options
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
                            (Full title of the plan)

Todd B. Crosland, 2801 South Decker Lake Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    (Name and address of agent for service)
                    
                         (801) 974-5555
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
         (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

                        Calculation of Registration Fee
Proposed        Proposed maximum
       Title of securities      Amount to be     maximum offering    aggregate offering      Amount of
         to be registered       registered(1)    price per share            price           registration
                                                                                                fee
Common Stock, par value $0.001     30,000             $2.00                $60,000            $100.00
[FN]
(1)     Pursuant to rule 416, there are also being registered such additional
  securities as may become issuable as a result of antidilution provisions.

                   Page 1 of    consecutively numbered pages,               
                     including exhibits pages   through   .

                            SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                 Cross Reference Sheet Pursuant to Rule 404(a)

     Cross-reference between items of Form S-8 and the prospectus incorporated
as part of this registration statement.
Registration Statement Item Number and Heading            Prospectus Heading
- ----------------------------------------------            ------------------
1.    Plan Information....................................Section 10(a)
                                                          Prospectus

2.    Registrant Information and Employee Plan Annual
      Information.........................................Section 10(a)
                                                          Prospectus

3.    Incorporation of Documents by Reference.............INCORPORATION OF
                                                          DOCUMENTS BY
                                                          REFERENCE

4.    Description of Securities...........................INCORPORATION OF
                                                          DOCUMENTS BY
                                                          REFERENCE

5.    Interests of Named Experts and Counsel..............Not Applicable

6.    Indemnification of Directors and Officers...........INDEMNIFICATION
                                                          OF DIRECTORS AND
                                                          OFFICERS

7.    Exemption for Registration Claimed..................Not Applicable

8.    Exhibits............................................EXHIBITS

9.    Undertakings........................................UNDERTAKINGS
PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

                    INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

     The following documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "Commission") by Surgical Technologies, Inc., a Utah corporation
("Surgical"), pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act"), or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"), are hereby incorporated by reference in this Prospectus:

          (1)  The annual report of Surgical on form 10-K for its fiscal year
     ended March 31, 1996;

          (2)  The description of the Common Stock of Surgical contained in its
     registration statement on Form 8-A, SEC File No. 0-18160, filed with the
     Commission on December 4, 1989, pursuant to section 12(g) of the Exchange
     Act.

     All documents filed by Surgical pursuant to sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or
15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date of this Registration Statement and
prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement
which indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold, or which
deregisters all such securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part hereof
from the date of filing of such documents.

                   INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

     The following is a brief summary of certain indemnification provisions of
Surgical's articles of incorporation, its bylaws, and the general corporation
law of the state of Utah.  This summary is qualified in its entirety by
reference to the text thereof.

     The articles of incorporation of Surgical provide for indemnification of
Surgical's officers to the full extent permitted by the Utah Revised Business
Corporation Act (the "Utah Law") or any other applicable law that may be in
effect and as set forth in Surgical's bylaws.  The articles of incorporation of
Surgical also provide for indemnification of Surgical's officers, employees,
fiduciaries, and agents to the extent provided in Surgical's bylaws or
authorized by the board of directors.  Utah Law permits indemnification of
directors if the director acted in good faith and believed his conduct was in,
and not opposed to, the corporation's best interests and, in the case of any
criminal proceeding, such director had no reasonable cause to believe his
conduct was unlawful.  Utah Law provides for mandatory indemnification and
court-ordered indemnification to directors and officers in certain
circumstances.  Further, under Utah Law, a corporation may indemnify an officer,
employee, fiduciary, or agent who is not a director to a greater extent than
directors, provided such indemnification is not contrary to public policy.
Surgical's bylaws provide for such indemnification to the fullest extent
permitted by law.

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to members of the board of directors, officers, employees, or
persons controlling Surgical pursuant to the foregoing provisions, Surgical has
been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable.

                                    EXHIBITS
SEC
 Exhibit   Reference
   No.        No.                            Description                          Location
4.01        4        Specimen Common Stock Certificate                         Incorporated
                                                                                  by reference(1)

   5.01     5 & 24      Letter opinion, including consent, of Kruse, Landa &      This Filing
                        Maycock, L.L.C., regarding legality of Common Stock   
                        to be issued pursuant to the Registration Statement.

  24.01       24        Consent of Arthur Andersen LLP, auditors for Surgical     This Filing
                        Technologies, Inc.                                        

  25.01       25        Powers of Attorney                                        See signature
                                                                                  page to
                                                                                  Registration
                                                                                  Statement
[FN]

(1)Incorporated by reference from Surgical's registration statement on Form S-4
  filed with the Commission, SEC File No. 333-3243.

                                  UNDERTAKINGS
REGULATION S-K

     Post-Effective Amendments [Item 512(a)]

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
     made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement, to include
     any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not
     previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change
     to such information in the Registration Statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
     Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a
     new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
     the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.
          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
     amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
     termination of the offering.

     Filings Incorporating Subsequent Exchange Act Documents by Reference [Item
51(b)]

     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of any employee benefit plan's
annual report pursuant to section 15(a) of the Exchange Act) that is
incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

     Filing of Registration Statement on Form S-8 [Item 512(h)]

     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to directors, officers, and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act
and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit, or proceeding) is asserted by
such director, officer, or controlling person in connection with the securities
being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the
matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of
appropriate jurisdiction, the question whether such indemnification by it is
against public policy as expressed in the act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                   SIGNATURES
                                   
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the city of Salt Lake, state of Utah, on the 21st day of June,
1996.

                                   SURGICAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

                                   By     /s/ Rex Crosland
                                     ----------------------------           
                                     Rex Crosland, President

                               
                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears
below constitutes and appoints Todd B. Crosland and Rockwell D. Schutjer, and
each of them, with power of substitution, as his attorney-in-fact for him, in
all capacities, to sign any amendments to this Registration Statement and to
file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection
therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or his substitutes may do or cause to
be done by virtue hereof.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in
the capacities indicated on this 21st day of June, 1996.

                                        /s/ Rex Crosland
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Rex Crosland, Chairman, President,
                                   Director, and Chief Executive Officer
                                   (principal executive officer)

                                        /s/ Rockwell D. Schutjer
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Rockwell D. Schutjer
                                   Vice President-Operations,
                                   Treasurer, Director
                                   (principal operations officer)

                                        /s/ Todd B. Crosland
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Todd B. Crosland
                                   Vice President-Finance, Director
                                   (principal financial and accounting
                                   officer)
                                   
                                   
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Reed Fogg, Director
                                   
                                   
                                   ------------------------------
                                   Donald A. Spring, Director