Cardiac Cath Lab / Vascular Technologist

Responsibilities

• Coordinate ordering all Cath Lab specific supplies with Logistics and Prosthetics including catheters, balloons, stents, sheaths, etc.
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• Coordinate all communication with vendors and schedule their visits
• Scrub, circulate, monitor, and operate equipment on the most complex examination and treatment procedures including intra-aortic balloon pump therapy for critical ill patients
• Absolutely ensure medications are properly labeled and available for physician administration
• Absolutely ensure they have a functional knowledge of the cardiac medications use, appropriate doses, and side effects
• Absolutely ensure they assist with training and mentoring other technicians, nurses, nursing students, and cardiology fellows
• Absolutely ensure they assist the cardiology manager with quality control and performance improvement activities
• Absolutely ensure they assist the cardiologist in completing both diagnostic and interventional invasive cardiac procedures including: LHC, RHC, PTCAs, Stent placement, IABP, IVUS, OCT, pressure wires, percardiocentesis, temporary pacemakers, radial artery procedures, peripheral procedures, permanent pacemaker placement and AICD placement
• Absolutely ensure they monitor the progression of procedures requiring independent judgment and anticipate need to provide specific instrument and/or catheters
• Absolutely ensure they have an intimate knowledge of vascular and coronary anatomy and physiology related to cardiovascular function
• Absolutely ensure they assist the cardiologist as a scrub assistant to the Cardiologist for device implantation including pacemaker and defibrillators and are knowledgeable of sterile technique, surgical tools, and techniques of electrocautery and suturing
• Absolutely ensure they assist in fluoroscopy with the internal and external placement of cardiac pacemaker
• Absolutely ensure they are familiar with a wide variety of computerized equipment. This includes angiographic (IR), digital fluoroscopy, PACS viewing stations, and hospital computer systems such as VISTA and CPRS
• Absolutely ensure they have the ability to scrub, circulate, and monitor advanced procedures (including electrophysiological) to include intravascular ultrasound, OCT, FFR, Acists device, Angiojet, filter wires, permanent pacemaker insertions and AICD insertions
• Absolutely ensure they have the knowledge and understanding of waveforms from the great vessels and all chambers of the heart including the ability to recognize and distinguish normal from abnormal, artifact from abnormality, and forewarn the physician of an impending life-threatening situation
• Absolutely ensure they have the knowledge of the more complex examination and treatment procedure and techniques in order to provide training and supervision in these procedures, to evaluate and initiate performance improvement projects, and to write policies, procedures, and protocols that pertain to the Cardiac Cath Lab

Qualifications

• Licensed in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia
• Certified in general radiologic technology by the American Registry of Radiologic Technology (ARRT) (R)
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• Knowledge of the concepts and practices of Catheterization Laboratory and vascular-interventional modality, including balloon angioplasty, stenting, intra-aortic balloon pumps, pacemakers/defibrillator implantation
• Knowledge in teaching/instructing procedures in the interventional lab
• Ability to communicate with staff and cardiologists
• Knowledge of radiation protection standards, minimum radiographic exposure techniques and employing lead shielding when performing standard or fluoroscopic procedures
• Knowledge of instructional techniques to educate newly hired or promoted technologists or radiology residents of the function of the exams
• No sponsorship available