Total Army Training System Courseware

OPERATING ROOM SPECIALIST

Course No. 081-301-91D10
Title OPERATING ROOM SPECIALIST
Effective
Date		 20 December 1996
Supersedes
TATS
Course(s)		 MD1337-CMP, Jan 1995
Proponent The proponent of this document is the Academy of Health Sciences.
Foreign
Disclosure
Restrictions		 The materials contained in this course have been reviewed by the course instructors in coordination with the Fort Sam Houston foreign disclosure authority. This course is releasable to military students from all requesting foreign countries without restrictions.
Purpose/
Scope

To prepare the Operating Room Specialist (surgical technician) with cognitive and practical foundations necessary to perform entry-level skills in the various roles of a scrub, circulating technician, and central materiel service (CMS) specialist for direct support of surgical procedures in operating rooms and clinics (TDA) and field environments (TO&E).

The 91D10, Operating Room Specialist Course is designed to provide the student with a working knowledge of principles of surgical technology practice, and the instruments, supplies, and equipment for surgical procedures. Didactic study includes: principles and methods of decontamination, sterilization and disinfection; storage and handling of sterile supplies; identification and care of surgical instruments, specialized equipment, sutures, needles, blades, linen, and corrosion-resistant metalware; duties of the scrub and circulating technician; principles and practices of sterile technique and universal precautions; transporting and positioning patients; operating room safety; handling of specimens, medications, dyes and hemostatic agents; and surgical specialties as they relate to selected surgical procedures.

Special
Instructions		 This course is available for download only. Materials may be in more than one format, for example: Microsoft Word (DOC), Microsoft Power Point (PPT), Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), and Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG). Necessary viewers are available from the RDL "DOWNLOAD VIEWERS" site.

Testing Material. Test material is not included with this course. The TASS Battalion Test Control Officer will order the test material from:

U. S. Army Medical Department Center and School
Academy of Health Sciences
Department Of Nursing Sciences
Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234-6100

Questions concerning subject matter of this course may be addressed to the Proponent.

TATS
Course
Content		 This TATS Course consists of the following:
ACADEMIC TIME
ANNEX A: ORIENTATION SUBJECTS 41.0
ANNEX B: CURRENT TRENDS AND PRACTICES IN SURGERY 10.0
ANNEX C: CENTRAL MATERIEL SUBJECTS 51.0
ANNEX D: GENERAL SURGICAL SUBJECTS 84.0
ANNEX E: DUTIES OF THE CIRCULATOR 17.0
ANNEX F: DUTIES OF THE SCRUB 21.0
ANNEX H: MANDATORY ANNEX 0.0
TOTAL 224.0

A course Read-Me Data File (RMDF) lists all files included for download. Files are grouped by download package. The intent of the RMDF is to assist the instructor in downloading only what he needs and ensuring that he has all required materials following download.

To download course materials, click on ALTFMTDownload Documents to see a list of downloadable self-extracting zip files (packages). Select and double-click, one at a time, on the files (packages) that contain the desired materials. You will be prompted for a "save" location on your hard drive.