Surgical Technology - Flathead Valley Community College

The Flathead Valley Community College Surgical Technology Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree is a 70-credit program expected to make capacities in all times of working room approach and methodology, consolidating clinical inclusion in the working room. Graduated class of the undertaking are set up to begin their job in the field as area level Surgical Technologists.

Despite working room frameworks, surgical procedures, surgical instruments and equipment; understudies study surgical microbiology, surgical pharmacology, remedial wording, life structures and physiology, asepsis (clean strategy), game plan of the patient for surgery and the physical conditions that make it imperative for a man to have surgery.

Another class of Surgical Technology understudies begins each year in January.

Why Surgical Technology? 

As a Certified Surgical Technologist (CST), you will be direct incorporated into the aftereffect of a patients' helpful recovery. You will help with the get ready to work room instruments and supplies, passing them to the authority, expecting and tending to the pro's needs and ensuring understanding prosperity all through the framework. Right when a considerable measure is hanging in the balance and the vocation is disquieting, you comprehend that you are having any sort of impact in each patient's life and it is all advocated paying little heed to the effort. The CST enables lives to be saved and witnesses significant changes in patients' prosperity every day.

What You Will Learn to Do 

• Clean, disinfect, and pass surgical instruments 
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• Appreciate surgical techniques and expect the necessities of the pro 
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• Ensure quality patient thought in the midst of the specialist technique 
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• Set up clean table with instruments, supplies, apparatus, and solutions/game plans going before operation 
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• Outfit and glove pro and partners 
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• Arrangement sterile dressings and wrap a sterile field 
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• Mindfully keep up a perfect field in the midst of surgery 
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• Count supplies going before surgery and before section point is closed 
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• Help different partners with terminal cleaning of room 
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• Get ready surgical space for next patient 

Course is given in a classroom and lab setting, furthermore clinical turns at region specialist's offices and surgery centers. On account of the necessities of the clinical section of the venture, and our clinical affiliations, enrollment is limited to 8 understudies each year.

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