. Course introduces the discipline of surgery, the surgical team, and the perioperative care of the patient (preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative). Emphasis is placed on the duties of the surgical technologist in the assistant circulator, first scrub and second scrub roles. Topics include the physical environment, attire, legal/ethical responsibilities, aseptic technique, chart review, infection control, equipment, instrumentation, supplies, methods of disinfection and sterilization, sterile storage and distribution, hazards of the environment, principles of electricity and robotics, environmental sanitation, principles of wound healing and wound management, and the typical sequence of surgery. Skills include patient identification, positioning, skin prep, urinary catheterization, counts, draping, incisions, exposure, hemostasis, application of catheters, drains and dressings and specimen care. An introduction to patient assessment and the specialties of surgery is included. +#*