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