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