Mauricio Balmaseda Alvarez

• Completed 2 travel assignments at a trauma Level I hospital. Demonstrated proficiency in managing critical situations and providing immediate medical attention.

• Analyze patient chart data and identification to verify accurate information.
• Update patient files to record medications prescribed and medical histories.
• Organize supply room and order supplies and equipment; Inventory management to control medications and supplies as well as to rotate stock and remove expired medications.
• Organize instruments and supplies to optimize surgical team efficiency.
• Transport patients to holding area to prepare for operating procedures.
• Help prepare team by assisting with gowning and gloving of staff.
• Manage and maintain surgical suites, create and maintain sterile operating fields, and sanitize and maintain surgical instruments and equipment to

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• Set up equipment, tools and supplies for procedures and organize instruments in alignment with surgical protocols and surgeon preferences.
• Maintain reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment, including decontamination, cleaning, sterilizing, storing and distributing.
• Prepare patients for surgery by positioning on operating table and covering with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure
• Assist surgeons by quickly passing instruments and sterile supplies throughout operation.
• Prepare day surgery and operating rooms for patients by ordering and stocking equipment and supplies.
• Organize and maintain unobstructed operative fields to foster immediate access to retractors and suctioning and irrigation equipment.
• Monitor and assess operating room conditions and patient and surgical team

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. Prepare dressings and bandages, applying and assisting with application following surgery.

• Recount surgical instruments and supplies (sponges, needles, etc) before and after operation, eliminating chance of items left inside patient.
• Operate and monitored lights, machines and equipment to support proper operation.
• Adhere to OSHA protocols when sterilizing instruments, discarding medical supplies and disposing of waste.
• Prepare, care for and dispose of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.
• Provide technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses and anesthesiologists.
• Follow complex and comprehensive verbal and written instructions.
• Communicate with professionalism and compassion when interacting with surgical team and patients.
  Exhibit confidence to work well under pressure and with a variety of physicians of different temperaments.
• Observe patients' vital signs to assess physical condition.
• Assist with reductions and limb casting and administer pain injections.
• Selected to train multiple new staff members on operating room procedures. infection control and safety and functionality procedures.

Frequently scheduled as Team Leader, despite availability of more senior staff

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• Continue all responsibilities of surgical technologist
• Control bleeding during surgical procedures by clamping and ligating blood vessels.
• Demonstrate appropriate techniques to assist surgeons with closure of incisions.
• Protect unobstructed views for surgical staff with use of retractors, sponges and suctioning equipment.
• Dressing wounds with antiseptic compounds and sterile coverings to protect surgical sites and promote healing.
• Using hemostatic clamps, suture ligatures and electrocautery equipment to control bleeding.
• Pursuing numerous learning opportunities in order to continuously expand core knowledge associated with surgical and technical procedures to advance patient care.
• Following established surgical techniques and procedures during operations.
• Assisting surgeons in variety of minor and major surgical procedures.
• Exhibiting confidence to work well under pressure and with a variety of physicians of different temperaments.

• Analyzed patient chart data and identification to verify accurate information.
• Updated patient files to record medications prescribed and medical histories.
• Organized supply room and ordered supplies and equipment.
• Organized instruments and supplies to optimize surgical team efficiency.
• Inventory management to control medications and supplies as well as to rotate stock and remove expired medications.
• Transported patients to holding area to prepare for operating procedures.
• Helped prepare team by assisting with gowning and gloving of staff.
• Managed and maintained surgical suites, created and maintained sterile operating fields, and sanitized and maintained surgical instruments and equipment to minimize infection risks.
• Setting up equipment, tools and supplies for procedures and organizing instruments in alignment with surgical protocols and surgeon preferences.
• Maintained reusable surgical instrumentation and equipment, including decontamination, cleaning, sterilizing, storing and distributing.
• Prepared patients for surgery by positioning on operating table and covering with sterile surgical drapes to prevent exposure.
• Assisted surgeon by quickly passing instruments and sterile supplies throughout operation.
• Prepared day surgery and operating rooms for patients by ordering and stocking equipment and supplies.
• Organized and maintained unobstructed operative fields to foster immediate access to retractors and suctioning and irrigation equipment.
• Monitored and assessed operating room conditions and patient and surgical team needs.
• Prepared dressings and bandages, applying or assisting with application following surgery.
• Handed instruments and supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants.
• Recounted surgical instruments and supplies (sponges, needles, etc) before and after operation, eliminating chance of items left inside patient.
• Operated or monitored lights, machines or equipment to support proper operation.
• Adhered to OSHA protocols when sterilizing instruments, discarding medical supplies and disposing of waste.
• Prepared, cared for and disposed of tissue specimens taken for laboratory analysis.
• Provided technical assistance to surgeons, surgical nurses and anesthesiologists.
• Followed complex and comprehensive verbal and written instructions.
• Communicated with professionalism and compassion when interacting with surgical team and patients.
• Exhibited confidence to work well under pressure and with a variety of physicians of different temperaments.