surgical instrumentation

Surgical Instrumentation

✂"I can and want to be an instrumentalist"

September 19 has been established as the Day of the Surgical Instrumentation. This date commemorates the death of Dr. Guillermo Bosch Arana, the first doctor to incorporate this professional figure              
 the surgical staff.

Surgical instrumentation, as a practice, arises from the Second World War, when war surgeons 
 able to operate and save more human lives than were possible up to that time. These activities were also supported by the advent of the use of antibiotics. This happens in the year 1928, when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

Contemporaneously with this, and given the shortage of personnel to assist in surgical matters, the army began to train the men's corps to help them in surgeries, under the direct supervision of the surgeon, in order to supply the field hospitals of the theaters of operations in the Pacific and Europe, since women were not allowed to embark on hospital ships and were also requested to care for the wounded in base hospitals and in homes. It is there where a new profession is born, that of the Surgical Instrumentation.

How could I be an instrumentalist?

Training in Surgical Instrumentation is given as a university degree, obtaining a Bachelor's degree, or as a tertiary degree, in the latter case, the graduate acquires the title of Surgical Instrumentation Technician.

¿Why study surgical instrumentation?

because La Instrumentación Quirúrgica es considerada una de las más modernas dentro de las profesiones vinculadas al área de salud, sucede que en algunos países de Latinoamérica por ejemplo, la capacitación formal en esta materia nació hace poco menos de 50 años y esto nos brinda el primer motivo por el que una persona debería decidir estudiar Instrumentación Quirúrgica, dado que aún en nuestros días, el número de instrumentadores no alcanza a abastecer la demanda de las empresas e instituciones sanitarias, con lo cual, quienes escojan la carrera podrían tener una salida laboral inmediata.

You should be an instrumentalist

What is the daily work of a surgical instrumentator like?

 What activities does he do?

 The surgical instrumentalist is in charge of working in the field of health, for which reason he provides his services in hospitals, clinics, public and private health centers. In his daily work, this professional will have to be in charge of assisting the patient and surgeon in the surgical act, but he will also be responsible for the preparation of the operating room and for the selection and arrangement of the instruments and supplies that will be needed at the time of performing a surgery. surgical intervention in a patient. Among the main tasks of the surgical instrumentation, we find the following:

 -Review of the operating room and the instruments to be used in this space.

-Assistance to the surgeon, offering the necessary instruments in each instance of the surgical act.

 -Control of the patient's condition in reference to anesthesia and its effects.

 -Control of the patient at the end of the surgical process