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