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Career Guidance Skills assisting and caring S3.2 - providing health care or medical treatments S3.2.2 - performing surgical procedures Assist in epilepsy surgery
Description
Assist the surgeon in setting up and performing intra-operative electrocorticographic recordings while supervising the technician. Assist in identifying and correcting common artefacts and faults. Help administer carotid amytal tests, and functional brain mapping.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 3 (Technicians and associate professionals)
Essential for
- Doctors’ surgery assistantDoctors' surgery assistants support doctors of medicine in medical measures, in performing simple support activities during medical procedures, standardised diagnostic programmes a…
Optional for
- Anaesthetic technicianAnaesthetic technicians assist specialised doctors in anaesthetics. They prepare operating theatres and other specialised clinics for anaesthetic procedures, prepare the equipment …
- Specialist nurseSpecialist nurses promote and restore people's health, and diagnose and care within a specific branch of the nursing field. Examples of such specialist nursing jobs include but are…
- Specialised doctorA specialised doctor, also known as a specialist or specialist physician, is a medical professional who has completed additional training and education in a specific area of medici…
Related skills
- Surgery
- General surgery
- Comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- Deal with emergency care situations
- Comply with legislation related to health care
- Empathise with the healthcare user
- Work in multidisciplinary health teams
- Anaesthetics
- Perform bronchoscopy
- Perform vascular surgery therapeutic procedures
- Conduct preoperative investigations
- Conduct polysomnography
- Manage trauma through surgical means
- Ensure safety of healthcare users
Last updated on February 18, 2026
