Cardiac Nurse

• Cardiology/ Echo technicians are responsible for preparing patients and diagnostic equipment for imaging procedures.
• Explain procedures to the patients.
• Positioning the patient, an echo tech applies gel that aids in sound transmission to the patient's skin before using the diagnostic equipment to create images of the patient's heart.
• Echo technician helps physicians interpret the data from the images and determines which images should be saved and which should be discarded.
• Echo technicians may also be responsible for ensuring that records are kept properly.
• Electrocardiogram technician performs an ECG by attaching electrodes to a patient and then pulling switches on an ECG machine to trace electrical impulses transmitted by the heart. A doctor then inspects these readings to analyze the patient's heart condition.
• ECG technicians also might perform stress tests.
• This involves hooking up a patient to an ECG monitor for a baseline reading and then monitoring the patient's heart while he or she exercises on a treadmill. During the monitoring period, the treadmill speeds up and slows down to produce ECG readings at multiple levels of physical exertion.
• ECG technicians can administer Holter monitoring tests. With this procedure, the technician attaches an ECG monitor to a patient, and then allows the patient to go about his or her normal routine for a 24-hour period. Next, the electrocardiogram technician removes the monitor and takes it to a scanner, from which he or she can print out the data recorded by the machine
• Responsible to check and Maintain Equipments and Consumables in the cardiac lab.
• Responsible to up keep All Technical Equipments i.e. imaging etc.
• Responsible to check and maintain Department and new technical inventory required for procedures in the department.
• Responsible for accurate patient billing and to keep the patient procedure data accordingly PCPNDT.
• Responsible to help in maintaining NABH standards in the noninvasive cardiac department.

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