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