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