🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     🤖 BARBIE MODE ACTIVATED 💗    Your adblocker was detected!    Comic Sans has been applied as cosmic punishment 💅    Ads keep this database FREE — please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info!    ✨ Everything is pink and that's entirely your fault ✨    🌸                     
Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Surgical Scrub Technologist (Surgical Scrub Tech)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #247 of 702. Estimated risk: 34.0%

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

AI Exposure Risk

44%

“Surgical Scrub Technologist (Surgical Scrub Tech)” 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 Scrub Technologist (Surgical Scrub Tech)” 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
ℹ️

Data is based on the reference occupation: “Surgical Technologists”

Advertisement

A robot took your ad!

Ads keep this free database of 57,000+ jobs alive. Please whitelist replacedbyrobot.info — we promise our ads are tasteful!

Related Occupations & Automation Risk

Medical Dosimetrists

AI Risk 60%
Robot Risk 43%

Urologists

AI Risk 60%
Robot Risk 53%

Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists

AI Risk 59%
Robot Risk 57%

General Internal Medicine Physicians

AI Risk 56%
Robot Risk 41%

Patient Representatives

AI Risk 56%
Robot Risk 36%

Pharmacy Technicians

AI Risk 56%
Robot Risk 49%

Core Skills & Abilities

  • Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.

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

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

  • Maintain files and records of surgical procedures.

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

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

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

  • Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.

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

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

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

  • Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.

  • Order surgical supplies.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

Alternative Job Titles