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What is a Surgical Assistant?:By Mark
Stout:The field of surgical assisting is now undergoing
some of the biggest changes in the history of the profession. These
changes will have a dramatic effect on your career and your surgical
assistant business. With growing public interest in health care,
insurance, and the qualifications of the individuals who care for
patients, there has been an increased call for regulation of all
individuals who provide direct patient care, and the operating room
is certainly no exception.
Surgical assistants (SAs) are medical professionals
who scrub for operative procedures, assist in the positioning of
patients, and assist in the draping and preparation of the operative
site. During procedures, they retract and expose the operative field.
The assistant also helps in securing the best possible exposure
of the anatomical site. With experience, the surgical assistant
learns to anticipate the moves and needs of the surgeon. The seasoned
assistant is will often become an expert in surgical procedures
and surgical techniques.Surgical assistants are often responsible
to determine specific equipment needed per procedure.
They review permit to confirm procedure and
special needs, confirm procedure with surgeon, assist in moving
and positioning of patient drape patient within surgeon's guidelines,
maintain integrity of sterile field and perform any other duties
or procedures incident to the surgical procedure deemed necessary
and as directed by the surgeon. They may also help to insert and
remove Foley urinary bladder catheter, select and place of x-rays
for reference, place pneumatic tourniquet to control operative blood
loss, insert drainage tubes per surgeon's directive and apply wound
dressings.Additional job operative duties may include providing
retraction of tissue and organs for optimal visualization with regard
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