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