An OT TECHNICIAN course is a paramedical course done after 10+2.It can be a diploma or a degree i.e bsc OT.
An OT TECHNICIAN is someone who is all around you when you enter the OT complex whether you are a doctor,or a patient or just someone entered wrongly.He will accompany the first party and will not allow the later.
An OT TECHNICIAN is someone who gets the list of patients to be done from concerned authority and forwards it to anesthesia consultant and makes sure the anaesthesia consultant is on time and on the other makes it very sure that when the anesthesiologist enters in OT, surgeons and patients are very ready to respect consultants time.He informs every surgeon and gets the OTs distributed and manages the first round in a calm manner.
An OT TECHNICIAN remains round the anesthetist till the patient is anesthetised, followed by proper position,he is to be the one who scrubs before anyone to get surgeon ready with instrumentation fir surgery.He paints,drapes the patient before the scalpel handle is passed over to surgeon.
Thought out the surgery he is with the surgeon and the surgeon is with him.
Before closing the incision back,he is to be responsible for counts.skin suturing and ASD is his bread and butter.
Positioning back, shifting from OT table to shifting trolley with anesthesiologist consent all on the shoulders of this OT TECHNICIAN.And ofcourse getting back that instrument trolley and preparing for new one after proper placing of previous instrumentation in a quick under the radar of another Surgeon and the anesthetist longing for home and list completion.not an easy Task?!
And at the end of OT placing everything back at it place and getting ready for another list.Emergency in wards,catheterization,ASDs and P/R enema in wards are always on cards for an ot technician.
Late night emergency case emergency s, everybody can say no but he is the one who has to get up before the patient reaches the hospital.