2 credit hour(s) This course prepares surgical technologist students with the additional core knowledge to assist with surgical procedures. Includes relevant preoperative diagnosis, common complications, surgical sequence, pharmacology, instrumentation, equipment, operative pathophysiology, and postoperative care for common surgical procedures that may require a surgical assistant. Core surgical specialties to be covered include the services of general, gynecologic and obstetric, otolaryngology, genitourinary, and orthopedic, ophthalmic, plastic and reconstructive, neurosurgery, vascular, and cardiothoracic. Contact: 2 hours. Does not count toward A.A. degree.