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