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