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.

Other names for Surgical Technologists: Anesthesia Technician, Certified Surgical Technologist (CST), Endoscopic Technologist, Operating Room Surgical Technician (OR St), Operating Room Technician (OR Tech), Scrub Technician, Surgery Technician (Surgery Tech), Surgical Orderly, Surgical Scrub Technician, Surgical Scrub Technologist, Surgical Technician, Surgical Technologist (CST),

• Count sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation.
• Hand instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors and cut sutures, and perform other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation.
• Scrub arms and hands and assist the surgical team to scrub and put on gloves, masks, and surgical clothing.
• Position patients on the operating table and cover them with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
• Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses and anesthesiologists.
• Wash and sterilize equipment using germicides and sterilizers.
• Prepare, care for and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.
• Clean and restock the operating room, placing equipment and supplies and arranging instruments according to instruction.
• Prepare dressings or bandages and apply or assist with their application following surgery.
• Operate, assemble, adjust, or monitor sterilizers, lights, suction machines, and diagnostic equipment to ensure proper operation.
• 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 and glucose, for use during operations.
• Maintain files and records of surgical procedures.

• Endoscopic clamps or dissectors or graspers or forceps or ligators
• Staplers for internal use
• Therapeutic heating or cooling units or systems
• Surgical instrument holders or positioners
• Instrument tables for surgical or obstetrical delivery use or accessories or related products
• Oxygen insufflator or its accessories
• Cardiovascular or thoracic retractors
• Staplers for internal use
• Staplers for internal use
• Surgical elevators or levers
• Specimen collectors
• Laparoscopes or laparoscopic telescopes
• Staplers for internal use
• Surgical lithotripters or accessories
• Surgical microscopes or loops or magnifiers or accessories
• Mercury blood pressure units
• Surgical controller instruments
• Lap mayo trays or mayo stands for surgical use or accessories
• Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
• Surgical microscopes or loops or magnifiers or accessories
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Instrument tables for surgical or obstetrical delivery use or accessories or related products
• Surgical needle holders for general use
• Surgical lasers or accessories
• Surgical nerve stimulators or accessories
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Notebook computers
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Operating room patient fracture tables or orthopedic tables or accessories or related products
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Personal computers
• Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers
• Surgical pneumatic or electric tourniquets or accessories
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Medical imaging dry laser printers or imagers
• Resuscitation kits
• Surgical controller instruments
• Surgical retractors for general use
• Surgical equipment stands or accessories
• Surgical power equipment sets or accessories
• Surgical controller instruments
• Surgical scalpels or knives or blades or trephines or accessories
• Staplers for internal use
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Surgical smoke evacuators or accessories
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Surgical tracheal stents
• Chemical or gas sterilizers
• Sterilization cabinets
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Patient stretchers or stretcher accessories
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Surgical dilators or accessories
• Surgical drapes
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Surgical elevators or levers
• Surgical lasers or accessories
• Surgical controller instruments
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Surgical probes or directors
• Surgical retractors for general use
• Surgical power equipment sets or accessories
• Surgical power equipment sets or accessories
• Staplers for internal use
• Surgical suction or irrigation tubings or accessories
• Suture needles
• Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets
• Suturing kits or trays or packs or sets
• Medical syringes without needles
• Tablet computers
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Tourniquets
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Ultrasonic cleaning equipment
• Surgical vacuum extraction devices or curettes or related products
• Vascular sequential compression devices or tubing
• Video cassette players or recorders
• Surgical power equipment sets or accessories
• Surgical blanket or solution warming cabinets or accessories
• Instrument disinfectant washing equipment
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Wheelchairs
• Medical incision drains
• Medical x ray units for general diagnostic use
• Heart and lung machines or accessories
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Cryosurgery equipment or accessories
• Cryosurgery equipment or accessories
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles
• Surgical dermatomes or dermabraders or dermameshers or accessories
• Surgical dermatomes or dermabraders or dermameshers or accessories
• Desktop computers
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Medical imaging dry laser printers or imagers
• Surgical dissectors
• Cardiac ultrasound or doppler or echo units or cardioscopes
• Surgical drains or sets or accessories
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Electronic blood pressure units
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Endoscopic video cameras or recorders or adapters or accessories
• Vein harvest systems
• Endoscopic equipment or procedure carts or accessories
• Chemical or gas sterilizers
• Surgical lasers or accessories
• Eyemagnets for ophthalmic surgery
• Medical exam headlights or headlamps or accessories
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Medical cine fluoroscopy equipment
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Operating room patient fracture tables or orthopedic tables or accessories or related products
• Instrument tables for surgical or obstetrical delivery use or accessories or related products
• Surgical pneumatic or battery or electric saws or drills or pin drivers or accessories
• Gas anesthesia apparatus
• Electrosurgical or electrocautery equipment or accessories or related products
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Blood recovery and delivery systems
• Autotransfusion units
• Intravenous or arterial infusion fluid warmers
• Surgical lasers or accessories
• Operating room patient positioning devices or accessories
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories
• Autotransfusion units
• Central venous catheters
• Pleural cavity drainage unit or accessories
• Surgical or endoscopic catheters or catheterization kits or drainage bags
• Surgical clamps or clips or forceps or accessories
• Surgical suction machines or vacuum extractors or ultrasonic surgical aspirators or regulators or accessories

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Data base user interface and query software

Medical software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software