• Clamping and cauterizing tissue and blood vessels to minimize blood loss

Re-checking your records to be sure all necessary precautions have been taken. 

• Retracting

• Identifying and protecting vital structures and organs

• Irrigating 

• Suctioning 

Coordinating with a multidisciplinary team of professionals to ensure the appropriate equipment, instrumentation, medications, and implants are available based on your Physicians preferences. 

• Suturing

• Stabilizing fractures and fragile tissue

• Monitoring the continued sterility of the operative field

• Often times, the primary Surgeon delegates the closure of surgical incisions to the Assistant. 

• If drains are to be left in place they will be secured at this time.

• In addition, the assistant will apply any needed wound vacs, dressings, splints, casts, braces, or binders. 

• Before leaving the operating room, the assistant will reassess your condition to ensure you are stable for transport. 

• Some licensed assistants may write post operative orders, make rounds to visit with you the days following your procedure, and even discharge you on behalf of your primary Surgeon.

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