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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Surgical Orderly” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #247 of 702. Estimated risk: 34.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

44%

“Surgical Orderly” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 44% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

55%

“Surgical Orderly” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 55% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Surgical Technologists, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.

Avg. Annual Salary $65,810
Avg. Hourly Wage $31.64
Available Jobs (US) 113,890
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Surgical Technologists #29-2055
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Surgical Technologists”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.

  • Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses, or anesthesiologists.

  • Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs.

  • Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, or glucose, for use during operations.

  • Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.

  • Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.

  • Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card.

  • Maintain files and records of surgical procedures.

  • Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.

  • Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.

  • Prepare, care for, and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.

  • Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.

  • Order surgical supplies.

  • Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.

  • Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.

  • Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.

Technologies & Software

  • Patient scheduling software
  • Nabla Copilot
  • Glass AI
  • Google Drive
  • Abridge
  • Internet browser software
  • Epic AI
  • Graphics software
  • Amboss AI
  • Perplexity AI
  • Word processing software
  • Nuance DAX (Microsoft)
  • Electronic medical record EMR software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Surgery workflow communication software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • MEDITECH software
  • Nursing documentation software
  • Email software
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Patient tracking software
  • Supply documentation software
  • Database software
  • Instrument positioning equipment
  • Orthopedic drills
  • Surgical drains
  • Ultrasonic cleaners
  • Portable suction units
  • Pneumatic tourniquets
  • Skin staplers
  • Argon beam coagulators
  • Suturing needle forceps
  • Graspers
  • Scalpels
  • Venodynes
  • Positioning equipment
  • Suturing kits
  • Foot-operated suction units
  • Central venous catheters
  • Intraluminal staplers
  • Flash autoclaves
  • Ethylene oxide sterilizers
  • Medical image database systems
  • Tracheostomy tubes
  • Warm air blankets
  • Blood/fluid warmers
  • Wheelchairs
  • Cardiovascular stents
  • Hemorrhoidal circular staplers
  • Linear staplers
  • Suture needles
  • Endoscopic camera/video systems
  • Continuous suction machines
  • Manual blood pressure units
  • Electrosurgical units
  • Slow suction units
  • Autotransfusion systems
  • Lab specimen containers
  • Surgical elevators
  • Surgical lasers
  • Wound drains
  • Defibrillators
  • X ray machines
  • Laparoscopes
  • Anesthesia machines
  • Ohio suction units
  • Needle holders
  • Vacuum extractors
  • Air driver drills
  • Robotic arms
  • Steri-vac aeration cabinets
  • Fracture tables
  • Surgical dilators
  • Kleinert-Kutz elevators
  • Medical imagining laser printers
  • Thermal cautery units
  • Nerve stimulators
  • Washer sanitizers
  • Surgical probes
  • Tablet computers
  • Surgical retractors
  • Surgical tubing or irrigation tubing
  • Electrosurgical monitors
  • Eye lasers
  • Surgical drapes
  • Remote manipulation robots
  • Smoke evacuators
  • Eye magnets
  • Voice activated surgical systems
  • Fluoroscopy equipment
  • Fiber optic luminators
  • Intestinal stapling devices
  • Electrocautery equipment
  • Syringes
  • Doppler ultrasound equipment
  • Digital electrosurgical units
  • Orthopedic arm boards with drains
  • Internal mammary artery IMA retractors
  • Cavitrons
  • Electronic blood pressure cuffs
  • Surgical forceps
  • Personal computers
  • Pulmonary resuscitators
  • Tourniquets
  • Neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet Nd:YAG lasers
  • Surgical robotics equipment
  • Video cassette recorders VCR
  • Instrument tables
  • Surgical dissectors
  • Suction machines
  • Lithotripters
  • Sterad machines
  • Spark-gap electrosurgical units
  • Surgical robots
  • Adjustable height instrument tables
  • Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
  • Sternal saws
  • Microscopes
  • Hyper/hypothermia units
  • Surgical navigation systems
  • Robotic manipulators
  • Craniotome drills
  • Cardiac leg wedges
  • Minidriver drills
  • Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM diagnostic medical printers
  • Surgical drills
  • Ring stands
  • Cell savers
  • Master control units or manipulators
  • Neurotome drills
  • Mayo stands
  • Dermatomes
  • Motorized lift tables
  • Stretchers
  • Washer sterilizers
  • Insufflators
  • Cholangiocath catheters
  • Surgical clamps
  • Chest drains
  • Surgical pneumatic drills
  • Dermatome blades
  • Surgical stapling equipment
  • Autoclaves
  • Autologous blood recovery systems
  • Retractors
  • Cryo units
  • Desktop computers
  • Loupes
  • Electrosurgical grounding pads
  • Cryo-ophthalmic units
  • Coronary bypass pumps
  • Surgical aspirators
  • Endoscopic vein harvesting equipment
  • Notebook computers
  • Endoscopy equipment

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