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