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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”
- Clean and restock operating room, gathering and placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instructions, such as a preference card.
- Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.
- Prepare patients for surgery, including positioning patients on the operating table and covering them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
- Wash and sterilize equipment, using germicides and sterilizers.
- Monitor and continually assess operating room conditions, including patient and surgical team needs.
- Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.
- Maintain files and records of surgical procedures.
- Order surgical supplies.
- Maintain supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, or glucose, for use during operations.
- Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.
- Maintain a proper sterile field during surgical procedures.
- Prepare, care for, and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.
- Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
- Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses, or anesthesiologists.
- Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, or diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.
- Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.
Related Technology & Tools
- Ohio suction units
- Medical image database systems
- Continuous suction machines
- Minidriver drills
- Motorized lift tables
- Cavitrons
- Surgical lasers
- Ring stands
- Digital electrosurgical units
- Electrocautery equipment
- Portable suction units
- Orthopedic arm boards with drains
- Blood/fluid warmers
- Neurotome drills
- Endoscopic camera/video systems
- Eye magnets
- Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
- Defibrillators
- Washer sterilizers
- Suturing kits
- Positioning equipment
- Slow suction units
- Linear staplers
- Warm air blankets
- Laparoscopes
- Pneumatic tourniquets
- Smoke evacuators
- Voice activated surgical systems
- Vacuum extractors
- Syringes
- Surgical drapes
- Remote manipulation robots
- Instrument positioning equipment
- Thermal cautery units
- Anesthesia machines
- Internal mammary artery IMA retractors
- Loupes
- Orthopedic drills
- Surgical navigation systems
- Surgical dilators
- Autologous blood recovery systems
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Scalpels
- Surgical aspirators
- Coronary bypass pumps
- Fiber optic luminators
- Video cassette recorders VCR
- Cryo units
- Sterad machines
- Chest drains
- Surgical dissectors
- Electronic blood pressure cuffs
- Surgical robotics equipment
- Graspers
- Insufflators
- Surgical forceps
- Fracture tables
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Cell savers
- Cholangiocath catheters
- Craniotome drills
- Central venous catheters
- Autoclaves
- Robotic arms
- Intraluminal staplers
- X ray machines
- Suture needles
- Washer sanitizers
- Desktop computers
- Dermatome blades
- Surgical stapling equipment
- Surgical pneumatic drills
- Surgical elevators
- Surgical robots
- Surgical probes
- Notebook computers
- Venodynes
- Ultrasonic cleaners
- Foot-operated suction units
- Manual blood pressure units
- Argon beam coagulators
- Flash autoclaves
- Electrosurgical monitors
- Lithotripters
- Surgical retractors
- Endoscopic vein harvesting equipment
- Medical imagining laser printers
- Autotransfusion systems
- Steri-vac aeration cabinets
- Suction machines
- Cryo-ophthalmic units
- Master control units or manipulators
- Sternal saws
- Electrosurgical grounding pads
- Stretchers
- Fluoroscopy equipment
- Hyper/hypothermia units
- Eye lasers
- Suturing needle forceps
- Mayo stands
- Retractors
- Wheelchairs
- Electrosurgical units
- Endoscopy equipment
- Instrument tables
- Surgical clamps
- Cardiac leg wedges
- Surgical tubing or irrigation tubing
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Dermatomes
- Robotic manipulators
- Kleinert-Kutz elevators
- Tablet computers
- Microscopes
- Surgical drains
- Adjustable height instrument tables
- Needle holders
- Nerve stimulators
- Spark-gap electrosurgical units
- Wound drains
- Intestinal stapling devices
- Doppler ultrasound equipment
- Personal computers
- Pulmonary resuscitators
- Skin staplers
- Ethylene oxide sterilizers
- Lab specimen containers
- Cardiovascular stents
- Air driver drills
- Surgical drills
- Hemorrhoidal circular staplers
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM diagnostic medical printers
- Tourniquets
- Microsoft Windows
- Supply documentation software
- Internet browser software
- Surgery workflow communication software
- Patient tracking software
- Microsoft Office
- Patient scheduling software
- Microsoft Word
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Graphics software
- Nursing documentation software
- Database software
- PracticeWorks Systems Kodak WINOMS CS
- Microsoft Excel
- Email software
- Word processing software