OPERATING-ROOM TECHNICIAN

  

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OPERATING-ROOM TECHNICIAN

Specialty Definition: OPERATING-ROOM TECHNICIAN

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Occupations

Performs any combination of following tasks before, during, and after surgery to assist surgical team: Places equipment and supplies in operating room and arranges instruments, according to instructions. Assists team members to place and position patient on table. Scrubs arms and hands and dons gown and gloves. Aids team to don gowns and gloves. Maintains supply of fluids, such as plasma, saline, blood, and glucose for use during operation. Hands instruments and supplies to surgeon, holds retractors, cuts sutures, and performs other tasks as directed by surgeon during operation. Puts dressings on patient following surgery. Counts sponges, needles, and instruments before and after operation. Washes and sterilizes equipment, using germicides and sterilizers. Cleans operating room. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: OPERATING-ROOM TECHNICIAN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 50 45 52 41 54 49 4E 47 2D 52 4F 4F 4D      54 45 43 48 4E 49 43 49 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001101 00100000 01010100 01000101 01000011 01001000 01001110 01001001 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#45 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#77 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#67 &#72 &#78 &#73 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 004E 0047 002D 0052 004F 004F 004D      0054 0045 0043 0048 004E 0049 0043 0049 0041 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4950395235544348411552494947254393742484337433548

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INDEX

1. Orthography
2. Bibliography


  

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