SUR 1103 - Perioperative Fundamentals

Credits: 3
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. It also teaches safety in the surgical environment and methods to establish, maintain, and coordinate safe patient care. Lecture 3 hours per week. Corequisite(s): SUR 1012, SUR 1102, SUR 1124, SUR 1213