OT Technician Job description

 

Duties & Responsibilities: 

1. Maintenance of all Equipment and Monitors

• To check electrical points, electric equipment, plugs, OT lights, suction machines, diathermy machines, and monitors.  Faulty/ malfunctioning equipment is brought to the notice of the appropriate authority (Electrician, maintenance / biomedical engineer, etc.).

• To check anaesthesia machine, cylinders, central pipe line, and anaesthesia instruments like laryngoscopes, Endo tracheal tubes, airways, and Magill forceps.

• Empty gas cylinders to be sent for refilling at the earliest.

2. Proper record of cylinders, both empty and filled.

3. Ensure that equipment like laparoscopic, C-arm, microscopes, and anaesthesia monitors are in working order.

4. Supervise cleaning of OT and OT equipment; assist fumigation of OT suite.

5. Receiving patient into OT and shifting patient into ICU postoperatively in coordination with Nursing staff & ICU Incharge respectively.

6. Maintain 

• OT Indent Register

• Equipment Register

• Stock Register – check drugs stock and expiry

 

7. Timely submission of OT list (Tentative/ final) to MS office.

8. To go through the pre operative checklist

• To confirm ‘consent for surgery’ in the patient file.

• Ensure patient is in proper OT attire and not wearing jewelry, spectacles, artificial dentures, nail polish, etc.

• To coordinate with concerned Surgeon & Anesthetist for preparing instruments.

9. To assist Anaesthetist in administering clinical anaesthesia

• Ensure OT table is disinfected and position checked.

• Drugs, disposables like cannulae and syringes arranged on the anaesthesia trolley as required.

• Maintenance of Emergency drug tray in every OT.

• Help during lines, induction and procedures.

• Maintain a written record of all anesthesia drugs as well as narcotics used for proper billing and getting doctor’s signature as per procedure (Narcotics Register).