CIP 51.0909
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Surgical Technology/Technologist
342
Colleges Offering This Major
4,511
Annual Completions
Degree Levels
Associate's Bachelor's
About This Major
A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by preoperative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. Includes instruction in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling, surgical supplies management, wound exposure and closure, surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring, maintenance of hemostasis, and patient and team scrubbing.
Related CIP Codes
- 51.1012
- Sterile Processing Technology/Technician
At a Glance
- CIP Code
- 51.0909
- CIP Family
- 51
- Colleges
- 342
- Annual Completions
- 4,511
- Degree Levels
- Associate's Bachelor's
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