Experience with blood administration, conscious sedation monitoring, cardiac monitoring, infection control, specimen handling, universal surgical protocols, peripheral intravenous starts, wound management, laser safety, radiation safety, latex allergy precautions, and malignant hyperthermia protocols. Experience with abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy, appendectomy, arthroscopy, cesarean sections, cholecystectomy, colonoscopy, dilation and curettage, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, fracture repair, hernia repair, laparoscopic procedures, mastectomy, tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy, total joint replacement, and other general surgical procedures.