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