Surgical assistant vs oral surgery assistant

Differences between surgical assistant and oral surgery assistant duties and responsibilities

Surgical assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage medical records and document examination notes, prescriptions, and procedure details in EMR.
• Manage surgical scheduling, cataract evaluations, ultrasounds, keratometry, IOL selection, and preoperative exam for surgery.
• Prepare patients for examination by taking their vitals, and performing EKG when need.
• Assist with all dental procedures, order all supplies, maintain equipment and OSHA handbook.
• Assist surgeons in surgical procedures making incisions, manipulating tissues and organs, cauterizing, suturing and dressing wounds.
• Interview patients, review patient medical history, gather and educate patients on their medications.
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Oral surgery assistant example responsibilities.

• Assist in intravenous sedation, prepare syringes with proper medication, placement of EKG leads, record and monitor during procedures.
• Provide postoperative care with anesthesia patients monitoring vital signs until patient is conscious; establish patient comfort and review prescribe medications.
• Maintain HIPAA compliance through patient confidentiality.
• Train how to assist Dr, in surgery.
• Set up and sterilization of instrumentation, making sure OSHA standards and high standards of the practice are met.
• Anticipate surgeons' needs, pass instruments, cuts, sutures, hold retractors, obtain and process tissue samples.
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