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