Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist

About the role

The Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist plays a crucial role in assisting physicians during catheterization and electrophysiology lab procedures. They prepare the room and equipment, instruct patients, monitor their condition, and provide routine and emergency care during procedures. This role also involves helping in the orientation and training of other team members, contributing to quality control initiatives, and managing resources.

Responsibilities

• Helps Physicians with arteriograms/catheterizations, permanent pacemaker implantations, implantable cardiac defibrillators, diagnostic and interventional, peripheral and coronary, interventional and thrombolytic therapy.
• Fulfills national and state radiation protection regulations for patients, self, and staff.
• Provides emergency procedures like CPR and defibrillation as needed.
• Performs pre and post-procedure care and monitoring.
• Orients patients for catheterization or electrophysiology procedures.
• Answers related questions to make patients relaxed.
• Maintains ECG, pressures, temperature, and impedances while in Electrophysiology Lab; notifies physician of variances.
• Manages and maintains images that may include stenosis testing, formatting and processing on both cardiac and peripheral cases.
• Gathers catheterization data and prepares procedure reports.
• Prepares and maintains sterile fields for Lab procedures.
• Coordinates and/or audits resources during yearly inventories.
• Performs routine calibration and maintenance of complex equipment; notifies appropriate team members for fixes.
• Oversees some level of quality control monitoring, such as NPSG auditing, turnaround times, performance improvement initiatives (Daily, monthly and/or quarterly).
• Participates in mutual governance, department, hospital, or professional organizations and committees.
• Coordinates and transports patients to and from procedural areas.
• Demonstrates good customer service skills.

Requirements

• Education: Associate's degree in a related field, completion of US military training program and experience equivalent to an Associate's degree, or 2 years of related cardiovascular lab experience.
• Experience: Will train (Current CVIS/CVIT Students, Recent Grads and Rad Techs welcome to apply); Preferred Experience: 2 years + Cath Lab or EP Lab.
• Certification/License/Registration: ACLS (ACLS): ACLS within 30 days of hire/transfer; Basic Life Support (BLS): BLS within 30 days of hire/transfer; ARRT-R Radiography (ARRT-R), Cert Cardiac Device Spec (CCDS), Cert EP Specialist (CEPS), Medical Radiologic Tech (MRT), Reg Cardio Electrophysiology (RCES), Reg Cardiovascular Invasive Sp (RCIS): Must meet one of the following: American Registry of Radiologic Tech (ARRT-R) and MRT through TX Medical Board, or Cardio Invasive Spec (RCIS), or Reg Cardiac Electro Spec (RCES), or Cert Electro Spec (CEPS), or Cert Cardiac Device Spec (CCDS).

Qualifications

• Knowledge and ability to apply complex invasive cardiac and vascular values, instrumentation and techniques.
• Knowledge of cardiovascular anatomy and physiology.