CV/EP Technician

at  Fairview Health Services

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Responsibilities/Job Description:

As a CV/EP Tech, you will be responsible for:

• Demonstrating the ability to safely and accurately operate equipment:
• Operate monitor/recording equipment in all cardiac cath lab procedures.
• Able to electrically and mechanically balance and calibrate pressure transducers and amplifiers in all rooms.
• Troubleshoots and corrects ECG tracing problems.
• Operates tableside C-arm controls.
• Insures all POC testing equipment is maintained according to established standards.
• Applies prescribed three major principals of radiation safety at all times.
• Collecting, assessing, and maintaining patient data:
• Enters patient demographics into both supervising and x-ray equipment.
• Records all patient and supervise data on event log according to established guidelines.
• Archives procedure to CD-Rom.
• Enters all data into computer system for accurate billing and patient procedure history.
• Reduces all right and left heart data to basic form for physician interpretation and reporting.
• Assesses and documents pulses distal to catheter insertion site pre- and post-surgical.
• Recognizes rhythms and sudden hemodynamic changes.
• Assisting invasive cardiologist with all invasive coronary procedures:
• Ability to scrub in all procedures in diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Cath Lab and EP.
• Proficient in patient preparation and sterile tray set up.
• Assists the cardiologist with required catheter and wire manipulation while maintaining the required sterile technique.
• Completing all other Core EP duties:
• Operates monitor/recorder and intracardiac simulator for EP studies.
• Operates RF Ablation equipment.
• With use of computer, draw and calculate LV grams to include ejection fraction and stroke volume.
• Supervise for EP studies/ablations, integrating use of EP mapping systems.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education
• Graduate of an education program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
• License/Certification/Registration
• Current CPR
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Certification within 30 days of start date
• Obtain any of the following within 1 year:
• Cardiovascular Technologist (CVT)
• Registered Radiologic Technologist (RTR)
• Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS)
• Registered Cardiac Electrophysiology Specialist (RCES)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience
• 1 to 3 years of Cardiovascular Technologist (CVT) experience.

• Demonstrating the ability to safely and accurately operate equipment:
• Operate monitor/recording equipment in all cardiac cath lab procedures.
• Able to electrically and mechanically balance and calibrate pressure transducers and amplifiers in all rooms.
• Troubleshoots and corrects ECG tracing problems.
• Operates tableside C-arm controls.
• Insures all POC testing equipment is maintained according to established standards.
• Applies prescribed three major principals of radiation safety at all times.
• Collecting, assessing, and maintaining patient data:
• Enters patient demographics into both supervising and x-ray equipment.
• Records all patient and supervise data on event log according to established guidelines.
• Archives procedure to CD-Rom.
• Enters all data into computer system for accurate billing and patient procedure history.
• Reduces all right and left heart data to basic form for physician interpretation and reporting.
• Assesses and documents pulses distal to catheter insertion site pre- and post-surgical.
• Recognizes rhythms and sudden hemodynamic changes.
• Assisting invasive cardiologist with all invasive coronary procedures:
• Ability to scrub in all procedures in diagnostic and Interventional Cardiac Cath Lab and EP.
• Proficient in patient preparation and sterile tray set up.
• Assists the cardiologist with required catheter and wire manipulation while maintaining the required sterile technique.
• Completing all other Core EP duties:
• Operates monitor/recorder and intracardiac simulator for EP studies.
• Operates RF Ablation equipment.
• With use of computer, draw and calculate LV grams to include ejection fraction and stroke volume.
• Supervise for EP studies/ablations, integrating use of EP mapping systems