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