Technician

Job Summary

Assist surgeons and anaesthesiologists before, during, and after surgery. Prepare operating rooms with surgical instruments, equipment, and sterile linens that will be needed during an operation. Technicians also may prepare patients for surgery by cleaning, shaving, and disinfecting body areas where the surgeon will operate. They may transport patients to operating rooms, help position them on the operating table.

Job Responsibilities

• To assist in setting up operating room according to type of surgery to be performed, which includes obtaining, arranging testing of equipment, supplies and accessories as per schedules.


• To shave and carry out pre-op preparation of operative site as per requirements of surgeon.


• To check whether all equipment s in the OT are in working condition daily, replace missing or damaged equipment and /or send to Biomedical Department after making entry in the books informing OT in charge.


• To assist anaesthetist/surgeon/nurses in preparing the patients for the procedure, positioning them in a prescribed manner, as per surgery/surgeon, assist in moving patient into wheeled stretcher to ICU/recovery room after completion of operation.


• To circulate for cases whenever the need arises for short period.


• To relieve nurses in between cases for breaks.


• To assist in cleanup of operating theatre following surgery includes disposal of used supplies and dispatching instruments for sterilization. / Cleaning of equipment s used in anaesthesia, etc and OT table accessories.


• To personally clean and change all tubing/linen on anaesthesia machine after the cases are done or/and at the end of the day.


• To check all anaesthesia trolley/crash cart for update and validity of drugs every Saturday or when time permits. (Mandatory weekly)


• Understands the functioning and then knows the case of every equipment in the OT. ( C Arm, microscope, cautery, OT table, Suction, Syringe Pumps, etc)


• To check cylinder supplies (oxygen, nitrous) as per requirements of OT cases.


• To keep and take inventory of all equipment s/cables used for anaesthesia on all shifts and reports damage or breakage to OT in charge and send the same for repairs to the Biomed / Engineering department after entry in HIS/logbook


• Receive and replenish sterile supplies from CSSD along with the nurses at the end of the day and place on racks allotted according to specialty

• Ensure and supervise cleaning of C ARM every evening whether it has been used or not.


• Knowledgeable of OT protocols and personnel safety.