Surgical Technologist
Definition of Occupation
Assists members of surgical team composed of surgeon(s), anesthesia personnel, nurses and surgical technologists during surgical procedures. May assist as circulating technologist, working outside sterile field during surgery; scrub technologist, maintaining sterile field and providing instruments, supplies and equipment to surgeon; first or second assistant to surgeon working within sterile field providing assistance with wound exposure, suctioning fluids and suturing, or in central processing department decontaminating, sterilizing and wrapping surgical instruments. Employed in hospitals, surgi-centers, clinics and physicians' offices.
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