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