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