Surgical First Assist/ CVOR / Cardiovascular Operating Room at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

 $42.00 - $62.39

Shift: Full Time  6:30am - 5pm, call required

We are seeking a capable Surgical Assistant / First Assist / CVOR who has acquired broad experience in caring for patients, and has developed a sound understanding about the care of a particular patient population. 

• Responsible for assisting the surgeon under direct and indirect supervision throughout preoperative, intraoperative, and post-operative duties and procedures as needed.


• Provide aid in exposure, hemostasis, closure, and other intraoperative technical functions that help the surgeon carry out a safe operation with optimal results for the patient. Permanent: clamping and/or cauterizing vessels or tissue; tying and/or ligating clamped vessels or tissue; applying hemostatic clips; placing local hemostatic agents. Temporary: applying tourniquets and demonstrating awareness of the indications/contraindications for use with knowledge of side effects of extended use; applying vessel loops; applying non-crushing clamps; applying direct digital pressure. Utilizing appropriate techniques to assist with closure of body planes.


• Packing with sponges. Digital manipulation of tissue. Suctioning, irrigating, or sponging. Manipulation of suture materials (e.g. loops, tags, running sutures).


• Utilizing running or interrupted subcutaneous sutures with absorbable or non-absorbable material and subcuticular closure technique with or without adhesive skin closure strips. Closing skin with method indicated by surgeon (suture, staples, etc.).


• Selecting and applying appropriate wound dressing: liquid or spray occlusive materials, absorbent material affixed with tape of circumferential wrapping; immobilizing dressing (soft or rigid).


• Points of pressure shall be padded: elbows, heels, knees, eyes, face, and axillary region. Circulation shall not be impaired. Nerve damage shall be guarded against.


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  CVOR has 6 OR’s with 1 hybrid room. We are a Level 1 Cardiac Center with 1200+ heart cases/year. 

  
  

  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate and /or certification from surgical assisting programs accredited through ARC/STSA.


• 2 years of surgical assistant/first assistant experience is required. Some areas may require specialized experience.


• CVOR Experience a must. Robotics experience preferred.

JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! Emory Healthcare (EHC), part of Emory University (EUV), is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia and the first and only in Georgia with a Magnet® designated ambulatory practice. We are made up of 11 hospitals-4 Magnet® designated, the Emory Clinic, and more than 425 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.