Surgery assistance

The new occupation of an surgery assistant was introduced in the Schüchtermann-Klinik in 2001.

The objective of introducing the surgery assistant was:

• enhanced continuity and improved quality of surgical assistance services
• qualitative optimisation of vein harvesting during bypass surgeries
• introduction of the minimally invasive vein harvesting as the standard procedure

The job profile of the surgery assistant includes:

• conventional or endoscopic vein harvesting
• surgical assistance services of first and second hand
• participation in surgical on-call services
• quality assurance with patient-specific documentation
• training of new surgery assistants in theory and practice

Since the introduction of this new occupation more than 30,000 patients have received successful surgery with the help of surgery assistants in the Schüchtermann-Klinik.

The surgery assistants form an especially trained group of employees. They are recruited from highly qualified surgical nurses. The vocational training courses have been formally defined and were certified within the quality management system.

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Contact:

Schüchtermann-Klinik Bad Rothenfelde
Operating theatre manager
Carola Abrahamson
Tel.: 05424/641- 649
Email: cabrahamson@schuechtermann-klinik.de

Managing surgery assistant
Martin Schmitz
Tel.: 05424/641- 762
Email: mschmitz@schuechtermann-klinik.de