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Overview\ The Cardiovascular Technician performs interventional cardiology, vascular, electrophysiology, and hybrid operating room procedures.\ Responsibilities\ Patient Care\ * Obtains and reviews the requisition for exams and information (procedure requested, special notes/comments and patient condition).\ * Reviews worksheets and patient questionnaires relating to exam prior to start.\ * Interviews patients before a procedure to obtain patient history/information and documents all relevant information into EMR.\ * Explains procedure to be performed to obtain consent and cooperation and alleviate patient anxiety.\ * Addresses patient concerns of radiation exposure.\ * Transfers patient to examination table; assuring that patient is properly clothed/covered.\ * Demonstrates the ability to place immobilization/supportive devices to obtain patient comfort and precise positioning.\ * Ensures that lead shields/protective clothing are properly in place and adjusted for staff and providers.\ * Ensures patient\'s comfort while obtaining the desired results.\ * Explains proper breathing instructions and continually directs patients during procedures.\ * Analyzes digital images for quality and performs quantitative analysis.\ * Reviews the patient\'s condition to determine the proper exposure factor for each test, calculating the proper voltage, current, and exposure time.\ * Demonstrates knowledge in collimation; adjusts cones as necessary to produce high quality images.\ * Receives and relays physician orders to RN for placement in patient\'s electronic medical record (EMR).\ * Assists in performing procedures (cardiovascular, vascular, electrophysiology, and hybrid).\ * Demonstrates ability to start and maintain intravenous and intra-arterial access.\ * Maintains and removes peripherally inserted central catheters.\ * Performs manual and mechanical hemostasis.\ * Demonstrates the ability to utilize closure devices.\ * Demonstrates the ability to identify cardiac rhythms.\ * Participates in the physiological monitoring of patients.\ * Provides support for patients/families by communicating the need for referrals (i.e., social services, case manager, etc.).\ * Provides and documents education to patients/families and healthcare teams.\ * Documents in EMR and communicates to the health care team the patient\'s interventions, responses, and status changes.\ Education\ * Educates and monitors students and other healthcare providers.\ Compliance/Safety\ * Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; safely performs work; monitors work environment for possible safety issues, and ensures others are also safely performing work.\ * Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee\'s area of responsibility.\ * If required for the position, please make sure all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid before expiration dates.\ * Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.\ * Archives images according to protocols.