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