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