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