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