Surgical Technician Essay

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How do Surgical Technicians help in the process of organ donation? What a Surgical Technician does during an organ harvest for an organ donation is vast. They help in organ donation in many ways. They help by handing the harvesters the instruments they need and the supplies they also need. Also they help by putting the organs in transportation containers so the organs do not go bad. Thirdly they help prepare the body and transports them to the operating room for the donation team to take the organs out. Fourthly after the operation they clean up the operating room. But there is many other things that the surgical technician help with during the organ harvesting procedure. One of the roles a surgical technicians does during a organ harvest is to help by handing instruments they need and also handing the harvester the supplies that they request(Alpha Omega, Organ donation, 2016). By handling the instruments they have to be in a complete sterile form and they open …show more content…

The way they prepare the body for transportation is that they make sure everything is unhooked from monitors, iv’s, and any other medical technology that monitors the patient's body(Surgical, Technician, BBA Accreditation, 2003-2016). Once they have the body on the transport bed they then move it to the operating room. But before that they have to clean it and make sure that all the bacteria is off of it so the body does not contaminate the operating room(Henry Tobias, American EDucation Associates, 2016, september 07). After they do that they have to serialize the patient’s body and put sterile drapes onto the body so it does not contaminate anything else. After that the harvesters can operate and take out what they need for the people on the waiting list. Once they do that then the operation starts and they take the organs out and anything else that they may need for people that need

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