Will “Surgery Technician” 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
- Operating Room Technician
- Operating Room Assistant
- First Assistant
- Assistant-at-Surgery
Tasks for “Surgery Technician”
- Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures.
- Adjust and maintain operating room temperature, humidity, or lighting, according to surgeon's specifications.
- Coordinate with anesthesia personnel to maintain patient temperature.
- Assist in applying casts, splints, braces, or similar devices.
- Transport patients to operating room.
- Postoperatively inject a subcutaneous local anesthetic agent to reduce pain.
- Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field.
- 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.
- Gather, arrange, or assemble instruments or supplies.
- Monitor patient intra-operative status, including patient position, vital signs, or volume and color of blood.
- Assess skin integrity or other body conditions upon completion of the procedure to determine if damage has occurred from body positioning.
- Assist members of surgical team with gowning or gloving.
- Verify the identity of patient or operative site.
- Obtain or inspect sterile or non-sterile surgical equipment, instruments, or supplies.
- Determine availability of necessary equipment or supplies for operative procedures.
- 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.
- Assist in the insertion, positioning, or suturing of closed-wound drainage systems.
- Maintain an unobstructed operative field, using surgical retractors, sponges, or suctioning and irrigating equipment.
- Remove patient hair or disinfect incision sites to prepare patient for surgery.
- Pass instruments or supplies to surgeon during procedure.
- Operate sterilizing devices.
- Assist with patient resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening events.
- Assist in volume replacement or autotransfusion techniques.
- 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.
- Incise tissue layers in lower extremities to harvest veins.
- Apply sutures, staples, clips, or other materials to close skin, facia, or subcutaneous wound layers.
Related Technology & Tools
- Wound drains
- Surgical gloves
- Cell savers
- Cast cutting saws
- Mayo stands
- Surgical retractors
- Ethylene Oxide sterilizers
- Suture kits
- Surgical dermatomes
- Hospital intercom equipment
- Specimen collection containers
- Intravenous IV sets
- Surgical fracture tables
- Medical image processing printers
- Blood warming equipment
- Medical staple kits
- Anesthesia carts
- Nerve stimulators
- Flash sterilizers
- Pressure steam autoclaves
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Sterile drapes
- Powered surgical drills
- C-arm tables
- Personal computers
- Eye magnets
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers
- Fluid warmers
- Surgical razors
- Subcutaneous injection syringes
- Head stabilizers
- Eye lasers
- Surgical robots
- Pneumatic tourniquets
- Fiberoptic endoscopes
- Hemostat clamps
- Cardiac monitoring equipment
- Carbon dioxide CO2 lasers
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Vascular clamps
- Laptop computers
- Patient positioning devices
- Body stabilizers
- Laparoscopes
- Hypothermia units
- Cauterizing equipment
- Surgical trocars
- Surgical clamps
- Urinary catheters
- Surgical masks
- Heart pacemakers
- Surgical protective goggles
- Pagers
- Blanket warmer cabinets
- Endoscopic camera/video systems
- Desktop computers
- Sterile gowns
- Patient transport stretchers
- Surgical scalpels
- Angiocaths
- Telethermometers
- Argon beam coagulators
- Suction machines
- Patient tracking software
- Microsoft Excel
- Supply documentation software
- Surgery workflow communication software
- Patient scheduling software
- MEDITECH software
- Nursing documentation software
- Electronic medical record EMR software