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