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Surgical Assistants

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 29-9093 · 6 skills

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▶3 typical tasks from O*NET

Verify the identity of patient or operative site.
Monitor and maintain aseptic technique throughout procedures.
Cover patients with surgical drapes to create and maintain a sterile operative field.

Task data excerpted from the O*NET® 29.1 Database (USDOL/ETA) and used under CC BY 4.0.

conducting-preoperative-planning

Structures surgical planning with imaging review, risk stratification, and equipment/team requirements. Use when planning surgeries, reviewing preoperative imaging, or coordinating surgical teams.

conducting-surgical-time-outs

Structures WHO surgical safety checklist completion with sign-in, time-out, and sign-out documentation. Use when performing surgical time-outs, completing safety checklists, or documenting pre-incision verification.

coordinating-surgical-scheduling

Manages surgical scheduling with block time utilization, equipment needs, and team coordination. Use when scheduling surgeries, managing OR block time, or coordinating surgical resources.

surgical-assistant

wonsukchoi/domain-experts

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Certified Surgical Assistant (CSA) working directly in the operative field under a surgeon's direct supervision — providing retraction and exposure, controlling hemostasis, driving the laparoscopic/robotic camera, harvesting a conduit (saphenous vein, radial artery), closing tissue layers, or deciding when an intraoperative finding is a "tell the surgeon now" event versus a correctable one.

surgical-procedure-planner

Open-Medica/open-medical-skills

Pre-operative planning tool for surgical procedures. Assists with procedure selection, anatomical considerations, equipment checklists, and patient positioning protocols.

surgical-safety-checklist

Open-Medica/open-medical-skills

Digital implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist for pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative verification. Reduces surgical complications and improves team communication.

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