Maha Ahsan

I am operation theatre practitioner, i am strong in urology and general cases.

Preoperative Duties are as follows: ● Donning OR attire and personal protective equipment (PPE). ● Gathers, checks and opens supplies and equipment needed for the surgical procedure. ● Performs the surgical scrub, and donning gown and gloves.

• Sets up the sterile back table and Mayo stand with instruments, supplies, equipment, and medications/solutions needed for the procedure. ● Performs initial instrument, sharps and sponge counts with the circulator ● Assists the team members with gowning and gloving. ● Assists with draping the patient and establishing the sterile field ● Participates in the surgical site and patient verification . ● Secures tubing, cords and other sterile accessories.

Intraoperative Duties are as follows: ● Prepares and anticipates additional instrumentation, equipment and supplies for usage during the procedure. ● Anticipates the needs of the surgeon by passing instruments and supplies to surgeon during procedure ● To prepare and organize the operation room supplies, instruments and ● equipment as per surgical requirement. ● Participate in orientation and education of all operating room staff on an ● ongoing basis. ● To assist surgeon as first or second scrub person in endoscopic, laproscopic and in open surgeries.

Additional responsibilities: ● Review the patient’s chart, identifies patient, verifies surgery to be performed with consent forms, and brings the patient to the assigned operating room ● Assists with transferring patient to the operating room table. ● Monitors the comfort of the patient and provides verbal and tactile reassurance to the patient. ● Assists in maintaining normothermia. ● . Assists the anesthesia provider. ● Assists with positioning the patient, using appropriate equipment and anatomical principles to avoid patient injury. ● Applies the electrosurgical grounding pad. ● To follow safety and infection control guidelines as per. SHC and WHO.

ATION : Dow university of health sciences, Karachi January 2009 - september 2013 Bachelor of Sciences, Surgical Technolgist. CGPA: 3.55/4.0 Project Thesis:on “Polygeline use in trauma • Review article on Differential Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer with its treatment . WORK EXPERIENCE : Surgical Technologist august 2021- Present , The kidney centr