SURG 2120 - Role of the Surgical First Assistant

SURG-2120 identifies the fundamental skills Surgical First Assistant students need to recognize and develop. These skills include monitoring devices, bladder catheterization, pneumatic tourniquets, skin preparation, surgical draping, instrument selection, responses to bleeding source, suctioning, wound coverings, drainage systems, and specific requirements for endoscopic surgery. Students learn basic skills and techniques and their applications in the Surgical Technology lab. (3 contact hrs) Center Campus.

Credit Hours: 3.00
Course Start Date: 1/1/2007
Course End Date: 12/21/2012