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