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Course Listings 2017-2018 231 HOSPITAL CENTRAL SERVICE (HCS) HCS100 LEC 4 Credits LEC 4 Periods / LAB 2 Credits LAB 6 Periods Fundamentals of Surgical Services Central Service functions, medical terminology, decontamination, isolation techniques, quality assurance, product transport, and billing methods. Duties and responsibilities of central service technicians. Instrument identification and care, assembling hospital prepared supplies, safety procedures, asepsis principles, monitoring procedures, sterilizer operations, portable equipment, sterile goods, rotation and storage inventory and distribution systems. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: HCS/SGT102. Cross-References: SGT100 HCS101AA LEC 3 Credits LEC 3 Periods / LAB 4 Credits LAB 10 Periods Introduction to Hospital Central Service Central Service functions, medical terminology, decontamination, isolation techniques, quality assurance, product transport, and billing methods. Duties and responsibilities of central service technicians. Prerequisites: Admission to Hospital Central Service Technology program or permission of instructor. HCS102 LEC 1 Credits LEC 1 Periods / LAB 1 Credits LAB 3 Periods Basic Surgical Instrumentation for Surgical Services History, construction and assembly of surgical instrumentation, categories, instrument set assembly, soft tissue foundation sets, general surgery instrumentation sets. Prerequisites: None. Corequisites: HCS/SGT100. Cross- References: SGT102 HCS104AA LEC .5 Credits LEC .5 Periods / LAB .5 Credits LAB 1.5 Periods Basic Surgical Instrumentation for Hospital Central Service History, anatomy and physiology of surgical instrumentation, categories, instrument set assembly, soft tissue foundation sets, general surgery instrumentation sets. Prerequisites: None. HCS104AB LEC .5 Credits LEC .5 Periods / LAB .5 Credits LAB 1.5 Periods Specialty Surgical Instruments for Hospital Central Service Identification, care, and assembly of instruments to include surgical specialty instrumentation such as plastic, gynecologic, urologic, basic bone and joint, head and neck, neurosurgery, cardiovascular and thoracic, microscopic, endoscopes, stapling guns, and robotic. Prerequisites: None. HCS110 LEC 2 Credits LEC 2 Periods / LAB 2 Credits LAB 6 Periods Packaging and Sterilization Instrument identification and care, assembling hospital prepared supplies, safety procedures, asepsis principles, monitoring procedures, sterilizer operations, portable equipment, sterile goods, rotation and storage inventory and distribution systems. Prerequisites or Corequisites: (HCS101 or HCS101AA, HCS101AB) or permission of instructor. HCS130 5 Credits 30 Periods Hospital Central Service Practicum Supervised student application of central service theory and laboratory skills. Prerequisites: HCS101 or (HCS101AA and HCS101AB) or permission of Instructor. Corequisites: HCS110. HCS152 LEC 1 Credits LEC 1 Periods / LAB 1 Credits LAB 3 Periods Advanced Surgical Instruments for Surgical Services Surgical specialty instrumentation care and assembly of instruments to include plastic, gynecologic, urologic, ba- sic bone and joint, head and neck, neurosurgery, cardiovascular and thoracic, microscopic, endoscopes, stapling guns, and robotics procedures. Prerequisites: HCS/SGT102. Cross-References: SGT152

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