6.00 Credits
This course provides students with in-depth coverage of surgical pharmacology and anesthesia, instrumentation, equipment, and supplies, hemostasis, wound healing, and wound closure, preoperative surgical case management, intraoperative and postoperative surgical case management, diagnostic procedures, and minimally invasive applications. Each Surgical Technology Didactic course satisfies major requirements and is paired with a lab that teaches students the skills and workflows required to perform in the operating room beginning with basic essential skills from gowning and gloving to advancing to completing a mock surgery from beginning to end. During each lab, students learn and complete a series of sequenced skills checkoffs that build upon the previously learned skill to teach students their surgical routine. Students benefit from being able to have observation hours in the Operating Room to see skills used by other Surgical Technologists and tie the skills back to concepts in their didactic learning. Students will learn and practice skills in both real-world operating rooms at UPMC's academic medical centers UPMC Presbyterian, UPMC Mercy, and UPMC Passavant as well as in the surgical laboratory on campus. 6 Credits (2 Credits Lecture, 4 Credits Lab) 150 In Class Clock Hours, 60 Recognized Outside Clock Hours, 210 Total Clock Hours)