STEC 110:Surgical Procedures I

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture hours per week: 3
Lab hours per week: 0

Prerequisite(s): STEC 101, STEC 102, STEC 102L
Corequisite(s): STEC 111, STEC 112
This course covers six surgical specialties including general surgery, genitourinary, GYN-OB, ENT pharynx and larynx, plastic and reconstructive, and neurosurgery. For each specialty, methods and principles are taught which include care of supplies and equipment, principles of patient safety, skin preparation, patient positioning, and draping the operative site. Additionally, sutdents will set up basic and case-specific instruments and equipment and utlize them in mock surgical procedures. Enrollment in the Surgical Technology Program courses is limited to those students who have been selected and admitted to the program. Program courses are sequenced by semester and must be taken as a group each semester per program requirements and policies.(Fall only)