OT Technician

Job Title - OT Technician

Department - OT

Qualification - Diploma in OT Technician

Responsibilities- 

·         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.

·         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.

·         Assist anesthetist/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.

·         Circulate for cases whenever the need arises for short period.

·         Relieve nurses in between cases for breaks.

·         Assist in cleanup of operating theater following surgery: includes disposal of used supplies / Cleaning of equipment’s used in anesthesia, etc. and OT table accessories.

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

·         Check all anesthesia trolley/assist nurses to check drug 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.)

·         Check cylinder supplies (oxygen, nitrous) as per requirements of OT cases.

·         Keep and take inventory of all equipment’s/cables used for Anesthesia 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/log book

·         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.

Working Conditions - 

·         Should be willing to work in different assigned shifts.

·         Stretched working hours

·         Great deal with standing & walking along with bending & lifting

·         Professional hazard

·         On call duty

·         Field duty (Camps, periphery clinics)