I am currently enrolled in medical terminology, pharm, A&P and microbiology because of you! I ran across your videos a few months ago and will be applying to the program next semester. Thank you so much! I don't think you realize what an impact you will have on people's lives. May God bless you sir. You're awesome
+L -EM Wow, thank you. I'm just a guy making some videos, and I have quickly started to realize that the content is reaching and affecting more people than I thought it would be. Thank you so much for sharing!
Surgical Tech Tips Yep. The content is intimidating but it's your humble real ness that provides a vehicle for a bunch of regular joes to believe in themselves. You're birthing dreams there brother. 👍
Same here. I got into a ST program and orientation is Tuesday for the program that starts next semester. Im excited and still learning from his videos.
while in the U.S. Army I was the head General and Thoracic Tech. I was on the night shift at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1980...I was sound asleep in the TV room...when we got a call for a gun shot...I went from a dead asleep to setting up the sterile field in less then 30 secs...before I knew what was happening, I was scrubbing up...the circulating Nurse got the supplies as I was scrubbing up...The Surgeon ran into the OR and started scrubbing just as I was finishing...I had the Field, instruments and completed as the Patient was being brought in...The surgeon then came, I gowned and gloved him...and we were on our way....I think back and said...How in the world did I do that so fast from a dead sleep...Knife Bovie suction and Laps and a few clamps...
New surgical tech in L&D here. Watched this before my work shift yesterday. 21 babies delivered. 2 urgent surgeries (1 emergent surgery and 1 that became urgent because we had to put mom to sleep.) You don't know how helpful it was to 1. Walk through the steps as things were getting setup and 2. reassure myself that most of the surgery could be done with the knife, bovie, and suction. Thank you SO much for posting this! I believe it really helped me, my patients, and their babies.
I was a surgical scrub nurse back in the 70's and loved it! Left nursing when my son was born and never went back. It's fun to see how you are setting up now. A few changes but mostly the same. I never heard the instrument you call "mosquitoes" called that. We called them snaps. Thank you!
So, I’m actually considering doing this but going the certification route and not tradition schooling. I’ll be out of the Military in 6 months and the information you provide is amazing! So much things I did not know, but it sounds very good! Looking forward to it!
Victor Williams hey I just ets out the military in October and I'm in school now for surgical tech and the school I'm in is 15-18 months and the good thing about getting out you can also go be a ST on base and you can do your clinicals there if you want
I’ve been watching your channel off and on all day. Love your videos! I’m a fellow tech working in L&D at the moment. Your videos are making me homesick for the main OR. I miss it! Good vids 😀😀
When I was a hospital based medic in the 80's, a surgeon was hustling in for a case, and a city cop pulled him over for speeding. He told the cop he had an emergency surgery to perform, and the cop said, "go ahead, don't speed, I am following you". What he didn't tell the surgeon, was that he was going to wait until he was done and leaving the hospital, and handed him a speeding ticket....He did, I watched...
I am going to school now to get my CST. I already work in the healthcare field at a hospital and people (specifically nurses) have asked me "Why ST? Why don't you just become a Nurse?" I joke around and say I dont enjoy that much patient interaction and I feel like becoming a CST will be way more rewarding in the end. I assumed this happened to you alot when you first started out? What are your usual responses and why did you choose CST over RN?
+Adrienne Eisenhart I was going through RN school first before I found out about CST. I told people that I wanted to be able to have my hands in, and assisting with surgery, not charting it.
I started as an RN and then when I saw my school at ST.. I switched my program.. I wanted to more hands and assist in surgery as well. I can't wait to start my clinicals and now I will graduate 4 months earlier because the of the courses I've taken in RN
I'm an 18 year OR RN veteran who learned to scrub on the job and now circulates and or scrubs depending on the current need. Your videos are great because even though I know what to do I continue to learn from your tips and "good techniques" ! Keep the information coming and have a safe and happy new year!!
nw24153ns, I had the same job as you! I started out scrubbing. I did it for 16 years until my back took me out early. I loved my job. I didn't do the same thing everyday, work with the same people. I was always in the spine room 3 days/week. Other than that, you name it. We were always learning new techniques, new implant systems, new equipment, etc. I miss it so much at times.
I am just about to start ST and watching this mentally help me prepare for what I'm about to go into. Iv been a caregiver for my paralyzed Veteran stepdad for 6 years and honestly it's what made me think about the medical field. But I haven't known exactly which field I have wanted to go into, I have only learned from the nurses that came in to help. In the 6 years that I have been his caregiver I have realized that I have the skills of an RN just without the giving or taking blood. Which myself am afraid of needles and also do not have a steady hand. But whatever I can do to help save a life or prolong it according to the patient I will accept it. Surgical Tech is above my expectancy of my own life, but I am here now and I will be damned if I turn back.
DK KikUrAss4Free, best of luck to you! My husband is a disabled vet. He's had several back and neck surgeries, but thankfully he's mobile. Thank you for the care you have given to your stepfather. I worked in the OR for 16 years and loved it. I miss it often. Don't feel overwhelmed. There's a lot to learn, but you can do it!
Love that you have these for new techs!!! 👍🏻 30 + yrs here, as you were explaining all the steps and so on i felt so proud to see someone else take pride in their job and what they do.., efffective and efficient. ... At the end of the day what i would tell my surgical tech students is that you will or should eventually get to the point where you should have ready whatever instrument/suture etc. etc. etc. it is the surgeon needs BEFORE he/ she asks for it... GREAT JOB on these videos 😷😁👍🏻✌🏻 1 more thing.... sometimes you, the CST/ST will be the one who may have to FA & tech on a case with your surgeon.... been there ..done that 🙋🏼♀️
Currently enrolled as Surgical tech student, and your videos help me a lot!!! I am literally FOUR MONTHS from my clinicals and I am sh*ttin' bricks lmao but I think i got this💯
This description makes it sound so similar to what’s going on in a piloting emergency. Everyone knows their role, and to an outsider, it appears chaotic. Kind of like a duck swimming: feathers in perfect condition, and cool as a cucumber on top, but paddling like crazy sub surface.
Im planing in going back to school and i really wanna be a surgical tech but ive been seeing things like “ surgical Technologist- associates and surgical technologist-certificates and diplomas” is there a difference is one better than the other?
+Gladis R getting your degree will make you better off for the future if you want to be able to move on to say, nurse, PA, hospital administration, medical rep etc etc. That being said, techs are paid based on their experience, so having a cert or degree doesn't matter in that aspect.
You’re right. Your videos do mean a lot. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to go into situations blind if at all possible. Your videos are giving me the best knowledge base I can imagine to take with me when my surg tech classes start in January.
No, if you have 30 or 45 min you usually are in your home when you get that call. If inclimate weather...pending your hospital, they may provide in house rooms or you get a hotel room very close by, at your expense. Nice hugh? Just reality.
Hello, first of all, I would like to give you credit for all the videos you've shared on RUclips. It's all very helpful and informative and I learned a lot. I just would like to make a request if it's possible that you can upload a video which shows an actual procedure particularly a Laparoscopic one. I just would like to see how things are carried out based on your techniques and styles from preparing, prepping, draping and setting up on the operative field before the incision begins - setting up the tubes, light source and the like... Of course, patient confidentiality is an issue i know that, but I'm still hoping that you can come up with a video in response to my request. I'm always watching your videos and trying to incorporate the things that I learned from you at work. Thanks in advance! :)
Thanks for replying, it's just that I'm a bit of "out of hands on" for a certain period of time already and my last experience is something that I can say that is "out of bounce from the SOP's of surgery"... or should i say, the not the ideal one. I prefer to be an expert like you in this field. Soon I'll be working with some good surgeons now from different nationalities and hopeful I can have more inputs from you. Thanks!
Hey Shane , I really appreciate you doing these beautiful, informative videos. First , “bit of info “ please introduce yourself at beginning of the videos for those that have not caught your name and position; like Surgical Technician it First Assistant. ( Difference as well ), .. I have a Medical education and work experience as a Professional Pharmaceutical Representative, then ironically I injured my spine again and required major spine surgery and now waiting for another one. A “ALIF “ or “Anterior Lumbar Inter- body Fusion “ but in my case besides fusion with bone, will use a titanium plate . L5-S1 ... I said , ironically “ because I worked in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Research on a 5 year Government Grant at The Veterans Administration Medical Center here in Birmingham, AL. Great experience with surgical procedures and assisting, etc... plus my job doing it in lab setting. My interest in Medical education and more . Will explain more later... Thanks again, Elliot Herzel
Your vids are super, if I had the time I would go back to school and become a scrub tech, 25 years in EMS/Trauma has taught me so much but the learning process ought not to ever end! Don't stop what you are doing.
Great vid. I'm glad you touched on having the knife ready. Working in L&D things can always go for sweet to sour in the blink of an eye and I always stress having you blade ready and establishing your mayo stand for emergencies.
Same, I always have my L&D OR set up, warner on and clinic doc & resident gloves ready to go. I don't pull suture or anything that is used after baby. Betadine and a knife is all I hand off.
I was recently accepted into a ST program at the hospital I work at and I am interested in Emergency Surgery/ Trauma. If my commute to work is an hour.....do they ever have ST who are on call stay at the hospital for trauma cases etc?
Connor Kelsey, we had several couches and recliners in our breakroom. We're on the East coast and the whole call crew can sleep there if a hurricane is near.
Good video on what is like to be on call and what to do if you get called into work. Thank God I have a job that doesn’t require to be on-call. Don’t speed to get to work 😂😂😂 no body wants to get speeding ticket 😂😂
@surgicaltechtips, quick question, what type of music do you listen to in order to get yourself ready for a full day at work? Like always I look forward to you're videos!
Follow protocols and routines-in the words of "Wizard of Oz" - follow the yellow brick road, the better you are in routines, the better your autopilot. Remembering to be snow-in in 1994 for 3 days -that was something, generally working thru disasters, not for fainting hearts, be prepared, especially mentally and emotionally,also knowing your physical limits, one of our scrubie -was too tired and fell asleep on a way home, which end up in a horrid accident on a hwy and took 5 surgeries and more than 2 yrs for her to walk and talk again, she was unable to continue her carrier or return to work. Always take care of yourself to have an ability to take care of others.
I'm only a layman here in the UK but the single most important message here is that what you're discussing doesn't happen by accident or fluke. It happens because you're disciplined, committed and have rigorously trained in your skills. Everyone there has a role, a purpose and you know what needs to be done, as much for each other as for the patient. If you're sat fumbling around or getting in the way then you directly affect the likelihood of a positive outcome. The reason that doesn't happen is simple. You know what you're doing. You're a team, from the paramedic to the nursing staff, the orderlies, the folks cooking the food and the folks mopping the floor. Every one of you has the same purpose and my own patient-perspective experience from here in the UK is that you execute that purpose flawlessly.
IMPORTANT!!!..NO MATTER WHAT THIS GUY SAYS ABOUT GOING OVER YOUR CASE WHILE DRIVING TO WORK, PLEASE PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON DRIVING ONLY & NOT THE WORK PROCEDURE!! U WILL CREATE ANOTHER EMERGENCY CASE OR MANY MORE IF AN ACCIDENT OCCURS!!
I love watching these videos because my goal is to be a surgical tech and work my way up in the OR. Right now I am a sterile processing tech and to do this when in school is so beneficial.
I was also a instructor for sometime so the hospital I worked at I set up carts for those emergency case it's now a thing they always do now you make me know how much I miss it I loved trauma surgery you can also be an instructor you give the same tips I gave as a instructor. 👍👍
I do have one question. Why isn't there staff in the hospital to deal with emergency situations? By the time they call someone at home and they drive to the hospital, valuable time is wasted. What's your opinion on this? Guess there are two questions - lol.
As far as staff in the hospital at all times, that depends on how big the hospital is, or if they are a level 1 trauma center and such. Level 1 trauma centers will have staff there at all times sitting in trauma waiting for the next case to come in. They may sit there all night or day long with nothing, or they may be bombarded with cases (gunshot wounds). In other hospitals (smaller) that only take on level 2-3 trauma there is no need to have staff there 24/7 as the "emergent" cases they will be getting do not require immediate intervention. (appendectomy)
I like your videos maby ill come in handy in a plane crash oneday or help him land the plane I'm the guy that heals without pain or scars, I heal from the top down premum no cere
I have loved all your videos. Thank you so much for bringing this career to light. I am actually looking into becoming a surgical tech. I was wondering if there are any career advancements? Is there a bachelors, masters etc to build up your career? If I wanted to be able to do more and more I didn’t know if surgical tech grows beyond an associate or should I look into becoming a surgical RN. Thank you so much
Lindsay Reed perioperative nurse(circulator), operating room, nurse, first assist. All advancements :) but if you want to stay close to the surgeon and be physically involved with the surgery stick with being a scrub tech and first assist.
Now I know things are going to vary greatly for a variety of reasons but I am curious. I know you take a lot of call. Do you get a lot of emergency calls?
You never know what your call will be like. I have put in 21 hours on a Saturday and I have put in 0 hours on a Saturday. We had to live within 30 minutes of the hospital. That means you're in the hospital and dressed out in 30 minutes. If you lived farther out, then you could stay in house. We had couches and recliners in our breakroom.
What are three different jobs a surg tech can work as ? I have to do a report On that but I’m wondering if cst and CSFA would be two of them . Can you help me please!
Thank you for all your videos. I just got my surgical technologist degree on August. I’m currently working on getting my certification here in New York. I’m really excited about my future in the operating room and ready to learn all the skills to become the best technician I could be. 🙏🏻❤️✝️🫡😷🤞🏻
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It's nice to see how much he loves his job and how compassionate he is. Thanks for the videos.
Definitely thanks for sharing
I am currently enrolled in medical terminology, pharm, A&P and microbiology because of you! I ran across your videos a few months ago and will be applying to the program next semester. Thank you so much!
I don't think you realize what an impact you will have on people's lives.
May God bless you sir. You're awesome
+L -EM Wow, thank you. I'm just a guy making some videos, and I have quickly started to realize that the content is reaching and affecting more people than I thought it would be. Thank you so much for sharing!
Surgical Tech Tips Yep. The content is intimidating but it's your humble real ness that provides a vehicle for a bunch of regular joes to believe in themselves. You're birthing dreams there brother. 👍
L -EM that’s excellent and inspiring. Best of luck to you.
Melissa Sullivan Thank you. :)
Same here. I got into a ST program and orientation is Tuesday for the program that starts next semester. Im excited and still learning from his videos.
while in the U.S. Army I was the head General and Thoracic Tech. I was on the night shift at Madigan Army Medical Center in 1980...I was sound asleep in the TV room...when we got a call for a gun shot...I went from a dead asleep to setting up the sterile field in less then 30 secs...before I knew what was happening, I was scrubbing up...the circulating Nurse got the supplies as I was scrubbing up...The Surgeon ran into the OR and started scrubbing just as I was finishing...I had the Field, instruments and completed as the Patient was being brought in...The surgeon then came, I gowned and gloved him...and we were on our way....I think back and said...How in the world did I do that so fast from a dead sleep...Knife Bovie suction and Laps and a few clamps...
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New surgical tech in L&D here. Watched this before my work shift yesterday. 21 babies delivered. 2 urgent surgeries (1 emergent surgery and 1 that became urgent because we had to put mom to sleep.) You don't know how helpful it was to 1. Walk through the steps as things were getting setup and 2. reassure myself that most of the surgery could be done with the knife, bovie, and suction. Thank you SO much for posting this! I believe it really helped me, my patients, and their babies.
I was a surgical scrub nurse back in the 70's and loved it! Left nursing when my son was born and never went back. It's fun to see how you are setting up now. A few changes but mostly the same. I never heard the instrument you call "mosquitoes" called that. We called them snaps. Thank you!
So, I’m actually considering doing this but going the certification route and not tradition schooling. I’ll be out of the Military in 6 months and the information you provide is amazing! So much things I did not know, but it sounds very good! Looking forward to it!
Victor Williams hey I just ets out the military in October and I'm in school now for surgical tech and the school I'm in is 15-18 months and the good thing about getting out you can also go be a ST on base and you can do your clinicals there if you want
I’ve been watching your channel off and on all day. Love your videos! I’m a fellow tech working in L&D at the moment. Your videos are making me homesick for the main OR. I miss it!
Good vids 😀😀
Kim Thrasher, I liked the variety of the OR.
c coop same here! Miss it so much.
Kim Thrasher, my back took me out early. I liked c sections, too, I just wouldn't want to do them and nothing else.
I love see what is in General emergency cart as far as instrument instruments
When I was a hospital based medic in the 80's, a surgeon was hustling in for a case, and a city cop pulled him over for speeding. He told the cop he had an emergency surgery to perform, and the cop said, "go ahead, don't speed, I am following you". What he didn't tell the surgeon, was that he was going to wait until he was done and leaving the hospital, and handed him a speeding ticket....He did, I watched...
That was a douche move
😳😩😭
I am going to school now to get my CST. I already work in the healthcare field at a hospital and people (specifically nurses) have asked me "Why ST? Why don't you just become a Nurse?" I joke around and say I dont enjoy that much patient interaction and I feel like becoming a CST will be way more rewarding in the end. I assumed this happened to you alot when you first started out? What are your usual responses and why did you choose CST over RN?
+Adrienne Eisenhart I was going through RN school first before I found out about CST. I told people that I wanted to be able to have my hands in, and assisting with surgery, not charting it.
RNs scrub, too! It was mandatory where I worked.
I started as an RN and then when I saw my school at ST.. I switched my program.. I wanted to more hands and assist in surgery as well. I can't wait to start my clinicals and now I will graduate 4 months earlier because the of the courses I've taken in RN
I'm an 18 year OR RN veteran who learned to scrub on the job and now circulates and or scrubs depending on the current need. Your videos are great because even though I know what to do I continue to learn from your tips and "good techniques" ! Keep the information coming and have a safe and happy new year!!
nw24153ns, I had the same job as you! I started out scrubbing. I did it for 16 years until my back took me out early. I loved my job. I didn't do the same thing everyday, work with the same people. I was always in the spine room 3 days/week. Other than that, you name it. We were always learning new techniques, new implant systems, new equipment, etc. I miss it so much at times.
@@ccoop3774 back gave out, hmmm, I'm there now, so what did you do from there, I'm really interested in knowing? Thanks,
I am just about to start ST and watching this mentally help me prepare for what I'm about to go into. Iv been a caregiver for my paralyzed Veteran stepdad for 6 years and honestly it's what made me think about the medical field. But I haven't known exactly which field I have wanted to go into, I have only learned from the nurses that came in to help. In the 6 years that I have been his caregiver I have realized that I have the skills of an RN just without the giving or taking blood. Which myself am afraid of needles and also do not have a steady hand. But whatever I can do to help save a life or prolong it according to the patient I will accept it. Surgical Tech is above my expectancy of my own life, but I am here now and I will be damned if I turn back.
DK KikUrAss4Free, best of luck to you! My husband is a disabled vet. He's had several back and neck surgeries, but thankfully he's mobile. Thank you for the care you have given to your stepfather. I worked in the OR for 16 years and loved it. I miss it often. Don't feel overwhelmed. There's a lot to learn, but you can do it!
Love that you have these for new techs!!! 👍🏻 30 + yrs here, as you were explaining all the steps and so on i felt so proud to see someone else take pride in their job and what they do.., efffective and efficient. ... At the end of the day what i would tell my surgical tech students is that you will or should eventually get to the point where you should have ready whatever instrument/suture etc. etc. etc. it is the surgeon needs BEFORE he/ she asks for it... GREAT JOB on these videos 😷😁👍🏻✌🏻
1 more thing.... sometimes you, the CST/ST will be the one who may have to FA & tech on a case with your surgeon.... been there ..done that 🙋🏼♀️
Currently enrolled as Surgical tech student, and your videos help me a lot!!! I am literally FOUR MONTHS from my clinicals and I am sh*ttin' bricks lmao but I think i got this💯
Give us the update!
Love this gentleman. So respectful and caring
What a good 😊 video brother thanks 🙏🏼
You are a great teacher
How long did it take you to feel confident in your skills at this job?
This description makes it sound so similar to what’s going on in a piloting emergency. Everyone knows their role, and to an outsider, it appears chaotic. Kind of like a duck swimming: feathers in perfect condition, and cool as a cucumber on top, but paddling like crazy sub surface.
Im planing in going back to school and i really wanna be a surgical tech but ive been seeing things like “ surgical Technologist- associates and surgical technologist-certificates and diplomas” is there a difference is one better than the other?
+Gladis R getting your degree will make you better off for the future if you want to be able to move on to say, nurse, PA, hospital administration, medical rep etc etc. That being said, techs are paid based on their experience, so having a cert or degree doesn't matter in that aspect.
Could you make a video on trama surgery
You’re right. Your videos do mean a lot. I’m the kind of person who doesn’t like to go into situations blind if at all possible. Your videos are giving me the best knowledge base I can imagine to take with me when my surg tech classes start in January.
Can you do videos of mayo set ups of your surgeries?
You are an inspiration to many.
You are awesome.
Awesome sauce!
U r help alot of these pleaple thank u.
Love yr channel ..this is spot on
9:52 killed me! XD
Wow you are very intelligent.. I’m so interested in starting a career in the medical field...I excited to work with people like you
This might be a stupid question but do surgical techs get to use the on-call rooms that doctors usually use?
No, if you have 30 or 45 min you usually are in your home when you get that call. If inclimate weather...pending your hospital, they may provide in house rooms or you get a hotel room very close by, at your expense. Nice hugh? Just reality.
Hello, first of all, I would like to give you credit for all the videos you've shared on RUclips. It's all very helpful and informative and I learned a lot. I just would like to make a request if it's possible that you can upload a video which shows an actual procedure particularly a Laparoscopic one. I just would like to see how things are carried out based on your techniques and styles from preparing, prepping, draping and setting up on the operative field before the incision begins - setting up the tubes, light source and the like... Of course, patient confidentiality is an issue i know that, but I'm still hoping that you can come up with a video in response to my request. I'm always watching your videos and trying to incorporate the things that I learned from you at work. Thanks in advance! :)
I do want to do a video about "pulling up to the field" in a laparoscopic case, as I know I struggled organizing all the cords early on in my career.
Thanks for replying, it's just that I'm a bit of "out of hands on" for a certain period of time already and my last experience is something that I can say that is "out of bounce from the SOP's of surgery"... or should i say, the not the ideal one. I prefer to be an expert like you in this field. Soon I'll be working with some good surgeons now from different nationalities and hopeful I can have more inputs from you. Thanks!
Surgical Tech Tips, I always had more trouble with arthroscopic cases over laparoscopic or urology cases. Those pumps can be finicky!
Thank you. Great info as always.
Focus on your field 💡
Very helpful information, keep up the good work man.!!
Hey Shane , I really appreciate you doing these beautiful, informative videos. First , “bit of info “ please introduce yourself at beginning of the videos for those that have not caught your name and position; like Surgical Technician it First Assistant. ( Difference as well ), ..
I have a Medical education and work experience as a Professional Pharmaceutical Representative, then ironically I injured my spine again and required major spine surgery and now waiting for another one. A “ALIF “ or “Anterior Lumbar Inter- body Fusion “ but in my case besides fusion with bone, will use a titanium plate . L5-S1 ...
I said , ironically “ because I worked in Orthopaedic Spine Surgery Research on a 5 year Government Grant at The Veterans Administration Medical Center here in Birmingham, AL. Great experience with surgical procedures and assisting, etc... plus my job doing it in lab setting. My interest in Medical education and more . Will explain more later... Thanks again, Elliot Herzel
I love watching your videos! I am almost done with ST school and I have watched all your video's and shared them! These help me so much! Thank you!
Your vids are super, if I had the time I would go back to school and become a scrub tech, 25 years in EMS/Trauma has taught me so much but the learning process ought not to ever end! Don't stop what you are doing.
Hi, your videos help appreciate the work that goes on in an operation. Thank you so much :)
Great vid. I'm glad you touched on having the knife ready. Working in L&D things can always go for sweet to sour in the blink of an eye and I always stress having you blade ready and establishing your mayo stand for emergencies.
Mslovelyshot Mrs. Dawn, as long as your scalpel is ready, the doc can get that baby out!
Same, I always have my L&D OR set up, warner on and clinic doc & resident gloves ready to go. I don't pull suture or anything that is used after baby. Betadine and a knife is all I hand off.
Thanks you sir love this vids I work in the OR as a SCT
Had a nurse of mine was called in- got into an accident- ended up in icu, recovered with minimal deficit but unable to continue as an RN
Are you able to choose what service/ speciality you are assigned to?
I was recently accepted into a ST program at the hospital I work at and I am interested in Emergency Surgery/ Trauma. If my commute to work is an hour.....do they ever have ST who are on call stay at the hospital for trauma cases etc?
Yep.
Connor Kelsey, we had several couches and recliners in our breakroom. We're on the East coast and the whole call crew can sleep there if a hurricane is near.
Good video on what is like to be on call and what to do if you get called into work. Thank God I have a job that doesn’t require to be on-call.
Don’t speed to get to work 😂😂😂 no body wants to get speeding ticket 😂😂
i love your content and i’m wanting to become a pediatric surgeon in the future
What is a bobie: Bovie??? You have mentioned that in several videos. Im going to be starting Surgical Tec soon, Just wanted to get a head start.
When I had to get emergency surgery, I was told that everything will be ready in 10 minutes, and that was a weekend night.
@surgicaltechtips, quick question, what type of music do you listen to in order to get yourself ready for a full day at work? Like always I look forward to you're videos!
Honestly, anything that gets me up and moving. Hip hop is prolly my fav. Childish gambino, mac miller and such
Surgical Tech Tips, both are awesome artists, thanks for the reply!!
what did you specialize in???
Which medications can be used for emergency surgery
Cool stuff. Great video.
I love your videos I'm going into surgical tech!!! Also random as hell, you're so adorable!!! Random as hell I'm sorry lol
I work at an HCA facility in Florida as a scrub tech. Love your videos!
Putting deodorant in your locker works good for when you forget to put it on at home or you need some more.
imagine trying to go and save someone's life and some stupid pig pulls you over
Follow protocols and routines-in the words of "Wizard of Oz" - follow the yellow brick road, the better you are in routines, the better your autopilot. Remembering to be snow-in in 1994 for 3 days -that was something, generally working thru disasters, not for fainting hearts, be prepared, especially mentally and emotionally,also knowing your physical limits, one of our scrubie -was too tired and fell asleep on a way home, which end up in a horrid accident on a hwy and took 5 surgeries and more than 2 yrs for her to walk and talk again, she was unable to continue her carrier or return to work. Always take care of yourself to have an ability to take care of others.
I'm only a layman here in the UK but the single most important message here is that what you're discussing doesn't happen by accident or fluke. It happens because you're disciplined, committed and have rigorously trained in your skills. Everyone there has a role, a purpose and you know what needs to be done, as much for each other as for the patient. If you're sat fumbling around or getting in the way then you directly affect the likelihood of a positive outcome. The reason that doesn't happen is simple. You know what you're doing. You're a team, from the paramedic to the nursing staff, the orderlies, the folks cooking the food and the folks mopping the floor. Every one of you has the same purpose and my own patient-perspective experience from here in the UK is that you execute that purpose flawlessly.
IMPORTANT!!!..NO MATTER WHAT THIS GUY SAYS ABOUT GOING OVER YOUR CASE WHILE DRIVING TO WORK, PLEASE PLEASE CONCENTRATE ON DRIVING ONLY & NOT THE WORK PROCEDURE!! U WILL CREATE ANOTHER EMERGENCY CASE OR MANY MORE IF AN ACCIDENT OCCURS!!
Thanks man
Thanks for sharing this tips! LPN student from Canada
Knife, Bovie, suction and scissors. Then hemostats, retractors and ties. Then.....
Thank you! I just started nocs and the only emergency I've been in is an ex lap. Searching for tips and this popped up.
I love watching these videos because my goal is to be a surgical tech and work my way up in the OR. Right now I am a sterile processing tech and to do this when in school is so beneficial.
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Thank for you video is Amazing
I was also a instructor for sometime so the hospital I worked at I set up carts for those emergency case it's now a thing they always do now you make me know how much I miss it I loved trauma surgery you can also be an instructor you give the same tips I gave as a instructor. 👍👍
Hi after getting a diploma in peri operative theater technology can i be a doctor is there a degree in this
Organized chaos
Totally.
Does the Doctors preferences card tells you all the supplies/tools you’ll need ?
Things planned work best....
I enjoy all of them and i want to lesrn moree
How much do you make ?
SoCal is 30 min
Love the vlogs ... Can you explain why you wanted to a surgigal tech
Probably my first initial thought about the job was "Wow, I could work in surgery without having to be a surgeon? This sounds awesome."
Hearing your expertise is FASCINATING as a pre-med student :) thank you!!
Awesome Tech
Block your work number lol
I do have one question. Why isn't there staff in the hospital to deal with emergency situations? By the time they call someone at home and they drive to the hospital, valuable time is wasted. What's your opinion on this? Guess there are two questions - lol.
As far as staff in the hospital at all times, that depends on how big the hospital is, or if they are a level 1 trauma center and such. Level 1 trauma centers will have staff there at all times sitting in trauma waiting for the next case to come in. They may sit there all night or day long with nothing, or they may be bombarded with cases (gunshot wounds). In other hospitals (smaller) that only take on level 2-3 trauma there is no need to have staff there 24/7 as the "emergent" cases they will be getting do not require immediate intervention. (appendectomy)
That makes sense. Thanks
I like your videos maby ill come in handy in a plane crash oneday or help him land the plane I'm the guy that heals without pain or scars, I heal from the top down premum no cere
Legit and on Fuckin point!
My man!
I have loved all your videos. Thank you so much for bringing this career to light. I am actually looking into becoming a surgical tech. I was wondering if there are any career advancements? Is there a bachelors, masters etc to build up your career? If I wanted to be able to do more and more I didn’t know if surgical tech grows beyond an associate or should I look into becoming a surgical RN. Thank you so much
Lindsay Reed perioperative nurse(circulator), operating room, nurse, first assist. All advancements :) but if you want to stay close to the surgeon and be physically involved with the surgery stick with being a scrub tech and first assist.
+Lindsay Reed like garth has said, many avenues to advance. You can even go on to become a perfusionist, PA, even a doctor if you want.
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I enjoy your videos I'm considering being a surgical tech just nervous about the school part
+Derek Kjorvestad don't be nervous! You can do it!
Surgical Tech Tips is school really hard or is it easy
+Surgical Tech Tips it's easy if you enjoy the subjects. Hard if your not.
Do you study and work or do you only work?
+Charlotte Cabello not currently in school, so just work.
Now I know things are going to vary greatly for a variety of reasons but I am curious. I know you take a lot of call. Do you get a lot of emergency calls?
+Stephanie Lake not really for our heart service. We get a lot during the day from our cath lab, but middle of the night? Maybe a 12-15 times a year.
You never know what your call will be like. I have put in 21 hours on a Saturday and I have put in 0 hours on a Saturday. We had to live within 30 minutes of the hospital. That means you're in the hospital and dressed out in 30 minutes. If you lived farther out, then you could stay in house. We had couches and recliners in our breakroom.
do you change Street clothes to hospital scrubs
Asia Green yes, every time you enter the restricted area of an OR you must be wearing scrubs, hat and shoe covers
+Asia Green made a video covering OR attire here: ruclips.net/video/3ovzBTsHmCo/видео.html
We wore street clothes in.
I live in Las Vegas I was shot in the leg and abdomen
Kendall Miller sorry to hear that. at the concert last year?
at 0:49 you can see the phone number
I love listening to you, awesome speaker💞💞💞
And had to have emergency surgery I’m glad to be alive today
What are three different jobs a surg tech can work as ? I have to do a report On that but I’m wondering if cst and CSFA would be two of them . Can you help me please!
+Brenda Vera CST'S, can work in spd, can work as a forensic pathology tech, a d I know there are others. Just not off the top of my head.
Surgical Tech Tips thank you so much for taking some time out of your busy life to help me out !! 🙏🏼🙏🏼thank you !
Dr your name please..and of course the name of ur hospital too
Hi, I am watching you from Cape Town, love your channel. please do some heart videos, cabg, valve replacement etc.
I really enjoy his videos
Thank you for all your videos. I just got my surgical technologist degree on August. I’m currently working on getting my certification here in New York. I’m really excited about my future in the operating room and ready to learn all the skills to become the best technician I could be. 🙏🏻❤️✝️🫡😷🤞🏻