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Job Description
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 surgeon's assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2055.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 46,800.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 22.00
- Currently, there are 105,720 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surgical Technologists”.
Also Known As…
- Surgical Technologists
- Surgical Technologist (Surgical Tech)
- Surgical Technician
- Surgical Scrub Technologist (Surgical Scrub Tech)
- Surgical Scrub Technician
- Operating Room Technologist (OR Tech)
- Operating Room Technician (OR Tech)
- Operating Room Surgical Technician (OR St)
- Certified Surgical Technologist (CST)
- Certified Surgical Technician
- Certified Surgical Tech/First Assistant
- Surgical Orderly
- Surgery Technician (Surgery Tech)
- Surgeon's Assistant
- Scrub Technician
- Operating Room Surgical Technologist
Tasks for “Anesthesia Technician”
- Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
- Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.
- Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, or glucose, for use during operations.
- 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.
- Order surgical supplies.
- 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.
- Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.
- Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs.
- 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.
- Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.
- Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Surgical clamps
- Autoclaves
- Surgical retractors
- Laparoscopes
- Digital electrosurgical units
- Cavitrons
- Electrosurgical grounding pads
- Endoscopy equipment
- Slow suction units
- Wheelchairs
- Sternal saws
- Continuous suction machines
- Fracture tables
- Lithotripters
- Ohio suction units
- Cryo-ophthalmic units
- Hyper/hypothermia units
- Orthopedic arm boards with drains
- Master control units or manipulators
- Pneumatic tourniquets
- Blood/fluid warmers
- Endoscopic vein harvesting equipment
- Medical imagining laser printers
- Surgical drills
- Dermatome blades
- Sterad machines
- Eye lasers
- Surgical dissectors
- Robotic arms
- Fluoroscopy equipment
- Suction machines
- Neurotome drills
- Washer sterilizers
- Intraluminal staplers
- Ethylene oxide sterilizers
- Smoke evacuators
- Cryo units
- Insufflators
- Air driver drills
- Surgical probes
- Washer sanitizers
- Chest drains
- Electrosurgical units
- Surgical forceps
- Adjustable height instrument tables
- Craniotome drills
- Minidriver drills
- Manual blood pressure units
- Defibrillators
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Central venous catheters
- Linear staplers
- Autologous blood recovery systems
- Graspers
- Suturing needle forceps
- Surgical robotics equipment
- Cell savers
- Notebook computers
- Hemorrhoidal circular staplers
- Electrosurgical monitors
- Remote manipulation robots
- Warm air blankets
- Electrocautery equipment
- Steri-vac aeration cabinets
- Suturing kits
- Loupes
- Motorized lift tables
- Intestinal stapling devices
- Stretchers
- Surgical drapes
- Orthopedic drills
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Surgical robots
- Cholangiocath catheters
- Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
- Tablet computers
- Voice activated surgical systems
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Argon beam coagulators
- Venodynes
- Eye magnets
- Surgical dilators
- Surgical stapling equipment
- Mayo stands
- Needle holders
- X ray machines
- Pulmonary resuscitators
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Cardiac leg wedges
- Medical image database systems
- Dermatomes
- Anesthesia machines
- Surgical lasers
- Positioning equipment
- Wound drains
- Electronic blood pressure cuffs
- Thermal cautery units
- Microscopes
- Surgical elevators
- Surgical navigation systems
- Skin staplers
- Fiber optic luminators
- Spark-gap electrosurgical units
- Nerve stimulators
- Lab specimen containers
- Instrument tables
- Retractors
- Desktop computers
- Vacuum extractors
- Coronary bypass pumps
- Surgical pneumatic drills
- Portable suction units
- Syringes
- Tourniquets
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM diagnostic medical printers
- Kleinert-Kutz elevators
- Suture needles
- Flash autoclaves
- Video cassette recorders VCR
- Surgical tubing or irrigation tubing
- Doppler ultrasound equipment
- Foot-operated suction units
- Internal mammary artery IMA retractors
- Cardiovascular stents
- Autotransfusion systems
- Ring stands
- Surgical aspirators
- Personal computers
- Instrument positioning equipment
- Scalpels
- Endoscopic camera/video systems
- Robotic manipulators
- Surgical drains
- Graphics software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- PracticeWorks Systems Kodak WINOMS CS
- Internet browser software
- Nursing documentation software
- Email software
- Word processing software
- Supply documentation software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Surgery workflow communication software
- Database software
- Microsoft Excel
- Patient tracking software
- Patient scheduling software
- Microsoft Windows