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SURG 2400 - OR Fundamentals


1 Credits


To prepare competent entry-level surgical technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains. Course discusses in depth the concepts around the following areas as it relates to the Surgical Technologists role. In this interactive course the learner will focus on the patient and the surgical technologist in the operating room as it relates to safety, fire risk, positioning, prepping, patient transfer. Introduces to the learner concepts around safety, of self and also for the patient. Theory and physics around the safe use of electro cautery, lasers, and microscopes and robotics in the operating room. The learner will also be introduced to a wide variety of supplies, their safe and proper use in the operating room, such as suture, dressings, drains, and catheters. The learner will also explore the concepts around wound healing as it relates to the surgical patient. Surgical prepping, safety protocols, technique and theory will be explored. 1C/1/0/0

Prerequisite(s): SURG 1405 , SURG 1410 , and SURG 1415 



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