SURG1005 — Perioperative Fundamentals
This course provides the student with skills necessary to function as a surgical technologist. It emphasizes establishing and maintaining asepsis, basic case preparation, instrumentation, suture materials and usage, draping techniques, OR furniture and supplies, basic and specialty equipment, scrub and circulating roles, and physical aspects of an operating room. Fundamental elements of the three phases of surgical case management are presented. It also teaches safety in the surgical environment and methods to establish, maintain, and coordinate safe patient care.