perfusionist
Prince sultan cardiac center
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :15 years, 3 أشهر
Role and responsibilities:
Perfusion is a skilled, allied health professional, trained and educated specifically as a member of an open-heart, surgical team responsible for the selection, setup, and operation of a mechanical device commonly referrer to as the heart-lung machine. During open heart surgery, when the patient's heart is immobilized and cannot function in a normal fashion while the operation is being performed, the patient's blood is diverted and circulated out side the body through the heart-lung machine and returned again to the patient.
The perfusionist is responsible for operating the machine during surgery monitoring the altered circulatory process closely, taking appropriate corrective action when abnormal situation arise and keeping both the surgeon and anesthesiologist fully informed.
Perfusionist often function in supportive roles for other medical specialties in operating mechanical devices to assist in the conservation of blood and blood products during the surgery, long-term support of patients outside of the operating room environment.
Provide direct nursing care, carries out variety of treatment and procedures' to assist in the nursing care of client with various illnesses and other condition, administer medication, treatment and assist with examinations and procedures calling for more specialized physicians care as necessary .documentation client responses to nursing intervention .
Current Job
King Abdullah university hospital (KAUH) is a teaching non profit hospital opened officially in
February 2002, governed by board of trustees and board of directors. KAUH provide various
clinical and referral health care services to other health care sectors in Jordan in a framework of
mutual agreements and contracts also provide training, educational and research opportunities for
students and health care professional.
• KAUH located within the Jordan University of science and Technology (JUST) campus in the
north of Jordan on the high way linking Jordan to Syria. It’s about 80km north of Amman and 20
km east of Irbid. Location allows the hospital to provide primary and secondary health care
services to more than 1 million inhabitants of Irbid, Ajloun, Jarash and Mafraq governorates in
particular and to all H.K of Jordan population in general. The overall area of various hospital
buildings is (95583) m2, in addition to a double story car park of (9000) m2 area. The hospital bed
capacity is (683) beds increasable to (800) beds in any emergent situation.
The hospital took the ISO accreditation and now we have the JCIA accreditation.Every thing in hospital computerized and connected to gother by internal network
nursing degree