speaking in their everyday routine: A perfusionist should be a people-oriented person as they will not only be working with patients‚ but they will also be working directly with the nursing staff‚ anesthesiologists‚ cardiac and pulmonary surgeons‚ and surgical technicians. (L. Hepfer‚ 2013.) After reading an article and seeing what L. Hepfer said‚ it sounds like speaking is very involved with a job like perfusion. At the end of the day‚ a perfusionist may be in surgery‚ getting equipment set
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1) Identify the members of the Surgical Team and describe their roles Surgeon – Dr. Slater Responsibilities- The responsibilities of a Cardiovascular Surgeon is that they perform numerous surgery that includes valve replacement‚ heart bypass surgery and fixing congenital heart defects. Physician Assistant- Lenny Responsibilities- The key function of a surgical Physician Assistant is to assist the physician in the global management of patient care in pre-‚ intra- and post-operative settings
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One started an arterial line in the wrist. The patient’s chest and both legs were cleaned and disinfected. Since this was a graft procedure‚ one surgeon would harvest veins from her leg(s) and the other would do the open heart portion. The perfusionist is responsible for the bypass machine. She connects a staggering array of tubes. The anesthesiologist intubated the patient and administered the anesthesia and monitored the patient’s vital signs. He also inserted a Swan-Ganz catheter. He was
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The members of the surgical team consist of the surgeon‚ the surgeon’s assistant‚ a scrub nurse‚ a cardiac anesthesiologist‚ and a perfusionist technician. Each of these individuals brings their own area of expertise to the team. The conventional heart surgery relies on each member performing his or her task‚ as it relates to the area of their own expertise. The new procedure introduces a dynamic that requires the team members to be more interdependent and collaborative within the group. The
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1. Procedure Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) is performed when a patient has disease of the coronary arteries. This is usually caused by atherosclerosis which is clogging of the arteries or hardening by cholesterol of plaque. Coronary Artery Bypass is done to improve the blood flow of the heart. The surgeon bypasses the obstructed artery using a healthy artery that is harvested from another part of the body and placed in the heart to reroute the blood flow around the blocked area. Usually the
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The World Wide Web has become one of the most sought after sources of information for consumers since the mid 90’s for health education. They have leaned towards “the Web” in seeking information to help learn about details of different diseases‚ and in most cases help improve their health. As clinicians‚ we tend to use the Web as a tool to research current information on many health related topics. This is why it is very important for health educators and clinicians to be able to evaluate the
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Leading and managing is a vast process in nursing. "Leadership is the process of engaged decision making linked with actions taken in the face of complex‚ unchartered or perilous circumstances present in clinical situations for which no standardized solution exists" (Bleich‚ M.R.‚ 2011) Description: I would like to share an incident in my nursing experience where one of my colleagues played a leadership role. I was working in the cardio thoracic and vascular surgery intensive care unit (ICU)
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We Can But Dare We: A Look into the Use of Social Media in Healthcare Sydney Sobocinski Chamberlain College of Nursing NR360: Information Systems in Healthcare September 2014 We Can But Dare We: A Look into the Use of Social Media in Healthcare In the world today‚ smartphones are becoming the “norm”‚ with basic phones becoming nearly obsolete in recent years. Pairing the overwhelming presence of social media with the rise in usage of smartphones brings to light an entirely new set of problems
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Bullying in the Workplace: Who is Involved‚ What are the Effects‚ and Prevention Michelle Green Wilmington University What is Workplace Bullying? The word bullying is usually associated with playground taunting and teasing‚ schoolhouse villains known for stealing lunches and lunch money‚ or maybe high school “cool kids” picking on the “geeks”. Bullying however has made its way from childhood memories to real-life adult work settings. The epidemic
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Understanding the Management Role to Improve Management Performance I.L.M. Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management Candidate Name: Paul Mendes Candidate Number: 0000000 Centre Name: RBHFT Centre Number: R31648 20 August 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Section 1 Understand the specific responsibilities of middle managers in enabling the organisation to achieve its goals. My organisation is the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
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