Surgical Technology - Columbus Technical College

Surgical Technology from Columbus Technical College is a Campus Certificate Surgery degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. To be an integral part of a surgical team, you are required to have a diploma in Surgical Technology . Surgical technologists help prepare for surgery, assist during surgery, and clean and stock operating rooms after surgery. Before surgery, they assist in setting up the operating rooms with equipment and sterile instruments. During surgery, they are responsible for maintaining a sterile field. Surgical technologists are key to a smoothly running operating room: anticipating the needs of surgeons, passing instruments, sutures, and sponges, and providing other sterile items. As directed by surgeons, surgical technologists may sponge or suction the operative site, hold retractors, and cut sutures. They also operate various types of equipment such as autoclaves, suction devices, microscopes, light sources, insufflators, and electrosurgical units. They help collect and handle specimens and help apply dressings. The program provides extensive clinical experience in area hospitals where you are supervised by Columbus Technical College healthcare professionals and hospital personnel. As a graduate, you qualify for employment in hospitals, private physicians' offices, and clinics, as well as in these same areas in the armed forces. This program prepares you to sit for the national certification examination. Clinical instruction stresses manual dexterity in the use of surgical instruments, the application of aseptic techniques, and safe patient care. View more details on Columbus Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Surgery courses.