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