Diploma in Operation Theater Technician
About OT Technician Program
The two-year diploma program has been structured so as to train professionals to assist doctors in the operation theatre and work under the supervision of anesthetists and surgeons. The diploma prepares students for overall management of the operation theatre. An OT Technician’s work includes taking care of the ins and outs of the operation process as well and assisting the surgeon during the operation. Other duties include arranging operation theatre table, dressing table, instrument and anesthesia table, sterilization of all surgical instruments, drapes and linen, facilitating the drugs and anesthetic gases required for surgery. The OT technician is an essential person in the operating theatre team who manages and organizes whole of the operation theatre, in the absence of whom neither can a surgeon operate nor can a hospital or healthcare centre run efficiently.
Rapid growth in the healthcare industry has increased the demand for such skilled professionals thereby increasing the number of enrollments for the course at SKS Group which has an array of many more allied health sciences and paramedical programs.
- To understand standard operating procedures and protocols with respect to preoperative and postoperative care
- To acquire knowledge of the process of sterilization so as to prepare the OT before surgery
- To be able to apply principles of safe practice in operation theatre
- To demonstrate skills in maintenance of complete operation theatre
- To acquire knowledge and understanding of vital parameters to be maintained during the operation
- To develop skills to access, analyze and evaluate the information gathered during the treatment
- To understand professional and ethical responsibilities in patient care
- General anatomy and physiology (cytology, histology, osteology and only basics of all organ systems of body)
- Basic of relevant pathology, pharmacology, (including anesthetic agents) and microbiology
- Detailed Surgical Anatomy
- Basics of OT, CSSD and anesthesia techniques and common surgeries
- Hand hygiene and prevention of cross infection
- Basics life support (BLS) and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Nursing procedures such as vital recording, IM/IV/SC injection, oxygen therapy, nebulization, catheterization, IV infusion
- Basics of CSSD and sterilization practices, biomedical waste management
- Basic biomedical engineering physics of OT equipment & instruments
- Lab technician
- Operation Theatre Technician
- Anesthesia Technician
- Assistant Operation Theatre Technician
- Assistant Lab Technician