Perioperative Theatre Technology encompasses essential skills for managing operation theatres in hospitals. These skills include infection control, technical support, safety maintenance, instrument care, clinical assistance, and administrative duties. Trained professionals ensure patient safety through infection prevention and technical assistance to the theatre team.
They uphold safety standards, manage instruments, and actively participate in surgeries, contributing to optimal patient care. Additionally, they ensure smooth operation of the theatre and overall theater operations. We prepare students for dynamic roles in operation theatres. Anglican Medical Training College- Maseno offers Level 5 (Certificate) program in this field, preparing students for dynamic roles in operation theatres.
Objectives of the Course
Understand the general ecological interrelationship and physiological process of living organism.
Obtain knowledge about the proper functioning of various anesthetic equipment such as the work station, anesthesia monitors, syringe pumps
Assist the anesthesiologists efficiently during procedures in and outside the operation theatre
Perform Basic skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, post-operative.
Learn the basic nursing skills of various surgical procedures including the surgical instruments used in the surgical procedures.
Expected Working Field
Hospitals are the crucial employers of Surgical/ operation theatre technologists
They work in the operating theatres, sterialisation department and theater recovery areas, Field of research, culture and training.
They are chosen in the workplaces of physicians or dentists who carry out outpatient surgery
| Entry Requirement | D + (Plus) |
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| Examination Body | TEVETA |
| Duration of Study | 1 Year |
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