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Surgical Technologists
$55.96K Median Salary 9K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 8.7% Job Growth
About This Career
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 surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.
Reported Job Titles
Certified Surgical Technician, Certified Surgical Technologist (CST), Operating Room Surgical Technician (OR St), Operating Room Technician (OR Tech), Operating Room Technologist (OR Tech), Surgical Scrub Technician, Surgical Scrub Technologist (Surgical Scrub Tech), Surgical Technician, Surgical Technologist (Surgical Tech)
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Skills You'll Need
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Abilities
Oral Comprehension
Near Vision
Problem Sensitivity
Speech Recognition
Arm-Hand Steadiness
Manual Dexterity
Selective Attention
Information Ordering
Oral Expression
Perceptual Speed
Flexibility of Closure
Number Facility
Speech Clarity
Visual Color Discrimination
Category Flexibility
Control Precision
Deductive Reasoning
Far Vision
Finger Dexterity
Inductive Reasoning
Multilimb Coordination
Trunk Strength
Visualization
Written Comprehension
Written Expression
Knowledge
Customer and Personal Service
Medicine and Dentistry
English Language
Education and Training
Skills
Monitoring
Active Listening
Operations Monitoring
Coordination
Critical Thinking
Speaking
Time Management
Active Learning
Complex Problem Solving
Equipment Maintenance
Instructing
Judgment and Decision Making
Learning Strategies
Management of Material Resources
Operation and Control
Reading Comprehension
Service Orientation
Social Perceptiveness
Technology Skills
Spreadsheet software
Electronic mail software
Graphics or photo imaging software
Medical software
Office suite software
Cloud-based data access and sharing software
Operating system software
Word processing software
Data base user interface and query software
Internet browser software
Tools
Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers
Surgical suction machine or vacuum extractor or ultrasonic surgical aspirator
Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment
Medical staplers for internal use
Surgical power equipment sets
General surgical supply set accessories
Surgical drains or drain sets
Instrument tables for surgical or obstetrical delivery use
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
Surgical lasers
Surgical dermatomes or dermabraders or dermameshers
Chemical or gas sterilizers
Operating room patient positioning devices for general use
Surgical microscopes or loupes or magnifiers
Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets
Cryosurgery units
Surgical elevators or levers
Surgical clamps or clips or forceps
Autotransfusion units
Medical imaging dry laser printers or imagers
Surgical retractors
Operating room patient fracture tables or orthopedic tables
Medical staplers for external use
Medical equipment and instrument disinfectant washing equipment
Surgical lithotripters
Mobile medical services automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
Pleural cavity drainage units or containers
Vein harvest kits or systems
Gas anesthesia apparatus or machines
Heart and lung machines
Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing
Surgical instrument holders or positioners
Surgical equipment stands
Electronic blood pressure units
Coronary stents
Surgical pneumatic or electric tourniquets
General surgical instrument sets
Surgical vacuum extraction devices or curettes or related products
Mercury blood pressure units
Medical exam or surgical headlights or headlamps
Surgical probes or directors
Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
Intravenous or arterial fluid warmers
Surgical needle holders
Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines
Laparoscopes or laparoscopic telescopes
Surgical navigation system accessories
Urological surgical catheter accessories
Endoscopic equipment or procedure carts
Surgical smoke evacuators
Eyemagnets for ophthalmic surgery
Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph transducer accessories
Therapeutic heating or cooling units or systems
Medical cinefluoroscopy units
Sterilization cabinets
Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use
Therapeutic heating or cooling blankets or drapes
Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use
Resuscitation kits
Patient stretchers
Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
Endoscopic video cameras or recorders or adapters or accessories
Medical syringes without needle
Endoscopic clamp or dissector or grasper or forceps
Specimen collection container
Surgical nerve stimulators
Oxygen insufflators
Video cassette players or recorders
Wheelchairs
Surgical dilators
Surgical drapes
Surgical dissectors
Notebook computers
Central venous catheters
Tourniquets
Tracheostomy tubes
Suture needles
Desktop computers
Personal computers
Tablet computers
