This course provides the student with anatomic principles and skills required for surgical assisting. Emphasis is placed on comorbidities and how they can affect the surgical procedure along with patient outcomes. Skills such as retraction, sponging, suctioning, tourniquet placement, drain management, wound care, and dressing application for various surgical procedures will be discussed in detail and practiced in the Lab setting. Students will become proficient in all forms of skin approximation and wound closure techniques. Students will progress from application of theory in Lab, to participation on surgical procedures.
Prerequisites
All previously required and concurrent courses per the academic plan or with consent of the faculty.