Will “Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
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Job Description
Assist surgeons during surgery by performing duties such as tissue retraction, insertion of tubes and intravenous lines, or closure of surgical wounds. Perform preoperative and postoperative duties to facilitate patient care.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2099.07
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Surgical Assistants”.
Also Known As…
- Surgical Assistants
- Surgical Technician (Surgical Tech)
- Surgical Scrub Technician (Surgical Scrub Tech)
- Surgical First Assistant
- Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA)
- Gastrointestinal Technician (GI Technician)
- Certified Surgical Technician
- Certified Surgical First Assistant (CSFA)
- Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA)
- Certified Registered Nurse First Assistant (CRNFA)
- Certified First Assistant (CFA)
- Surgical Services Assistant
- Surgical Assistant-Certified (SA-C)
- Surgical Assistant
- Surgery Technician
- Operating Room Technician
- Operating Room Assistant
- First Assistant
- Assistant-at-Surgery
Tasks for “Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA)”
- Transport patients to operating room.
- Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.
- Adjust and maintain operating room temperature, humidity, or lighting, according to surgeon's specifications.
- Verify the identity of patient or operative site.
- Incise tissue layers in lower extremities to harvest veins.
- Assist in applying casts, splints, braces, or similar devices.
- Maintain an unobstructed operative field, using surgical retractors, sponges, or suctioning and irrigating equipment.
- Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers.
- Pass instruments or supplies to surgeon during procedure.
- Assist in the insertion, positioning, or suturing of closed-wound drainage systems.
- Postoperatively inject a subcutaneous local anesthetic agent to reduce pain.
- Clamp, ligate, or cauterize blood vessels to control bleeding during surgical entry, using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures, or electrocautery equipment.
- Prepare and apply sterile wound dressings.
- Assist members of surgical team with gowning or gloving.
- Operate sterilizing devices.
- Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field.
- Remove patient hair or disinfect incision sites to prepare patient for surgery.
- Insert or remove urinary bladder catheters.
- Coordinate or participate in the positioning of patients, using body stabilizing equipment or protective padding to provide appropriate exposure for the procedure or to protect against nerve damage or circulation impairment.
- Determine availability of necessary equipment or supplies for operative procedures.
- Assist in volume replacement or autotransfusion techniques.
- Obtain or inspect sterile or non-sterile surgical equipment, instruments, or supplies.
- Gather, arrange, or assemble instruments or supplies.
- Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
- Monitor patient intra-operative status, including patient position, vital signs, or volume and color of blood.
- Discuss with surgeon the nature of the surgical procedure, including operative consent, methods of operative exposure, diagnostic or laboratory data, or patient-advanced directives or other needs.
- Assess skin integrity or other body conditions upon completion of the procedure to determine if damage has occurred from body positioning.
- Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures.
Related Technology & Tools
- C-arm tables
- Nerve stimulators
- Angiocaths
- Medical staple kits
- Desktop computers
- Wound drains
- Intravenous IV sets
- Head stabilizers
- Pressure steam autoclaves
- Cardiac monitoring equipment
- Suture kits
- Blood warming equipment
- Surgical protective goggles
- Mayo stands
- Pneumatic tourniquets
- Patient transport stretchers
- Ethylene Oxide sterilizers
- Fluid warmers
- Specimen collection containers
- Laptop computers
- Surgical retractors
- Anesthesia carts
- Suction machines
- Eye lasers
- Hemostat clamps
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Subcutaneous injection syringes
- Sterile gowns
- Powered surgical drills
- Hospital intercom equipment
- Surgical clamps
- Telethermometers
- Surgical masks
- Personal computers
- Laparoscopes
- Cast cutting saws
- Blanket warmer cabinets
- Surgical fracture tables
- Cauterizing equipment
- Flash sterilizers
- Argon beam coagulators
- Eye magnets
- Surgical gloves
- Cell savers
- Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
- Surgical trocars
- Patient positioning devices
- Urinary catheters
- Vascular clamps
- Medical image processing printers
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Surgical robots
- Endoscopic camera/video systems
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Fiberoptic endoscopes
- Surgical razors
- Surgical dermatomes
- Pagers
- Sterile drapes
- Surgical scalpels
- Heart pacemakers
- Hypothermia units
- Body stabilizers
- Patient scheduling software
- MEDITECH software
- Nursing documentation software
- Patient tracking software
- Surgery workflow communication software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Supply documentation software
- Microsoft Excel