Cardiovascular Technologist

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About the Facility: Cardiac Catheterization & Electrophysiology Laboratory (West Los Angeles VA Medical Center)
The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is a large integrated healthcare system within the Department of Veterans Affairs serving veterans in Southern California and Southern Nevada. It's one of the largest facilities in the VA network and offers a wide range of medical services, including primary care, specialized care, and research programs.

Facility address: VA Greater Los Angeles Hospital - 11301 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90073

Job Duties

• Will perform a wide range of diagnostic tests (both invasive and non-invasive) and support duties such as the collection of blood samples for analysis for research, coagulation studies, and blood gas determination.
• Operates radiologic fluoroscopy equipment to allow the medical team to appropriately visualize images during procedures.
• Assists or performs testing such as electrocardiograms, intravascular ultrasound, intracoronary pressure wire, drug exercise challenges, and the administration of dynamic electrocardiographic monitoring (Holter) analysis.
• Will be scrubbed and downed and responsible for preparing catheters, guide wires, transducers, angioplasty balloons, stents, manifold and ACIST assembly.
• Set up and assist coronary angiography in the CVOR.
• Assist the surgeon, cardiologist, or interventionalist as required during procedures.
• Assist the physician during invasive and noninvasive procedures.
• Operate, control, and monitor patient vital signs using the hemodynamic monitoring system.
• Assist in the post-processing, storage, archival, and completion formalization of diagnostic and intervention images of the performed procedures.
• Ensure proper documentation and radiation dose, DAP, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure proper preventive maintenance, routine cleaning, and radiation safety testing/quality control practices are performed as directed.
• Assist with measuring for the fixed imaging within the cardiovascular catheterization laboratory.
• Responsible for control, operation, and troubleshooting of Siemens Artis Zeego fluoroscopy within the CVOR suite.
• Prepare all documentation to meet or exceed established standards of the MTF.
• Responsible for control, operation, and troubleshooting of the Philips Biplane X-ray/Digital Cardiac Imaging System.
• Serves as CCL Circulating Technician during cases.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree/Education: Completion of an accredited Registered Cardiovascular Technician Certification (RCVT, RCIS) program OR accredited Radiology Technologist program with a Certified Radiation Technologist (CRT) OR The American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS).
• Certifications: BLS and ACLS obtained through the American Heart Association or a Red Cross-approved training program.
• Licensure/Registration: Registered as a Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (RCIS) as determined by the Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI).
• Experience: 2 years professional Cardiac Catheterization experience.

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