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