This placement will be split into three sessions.
1) Echocardiography – this is cardiac ultrasound and will involve watching patients have their images taken and then sitting with the cardiac physiologist to interpret the images and to write a report on the findings. This may involve ward work, clinic work or specialist forms of echocardiography such as Stress echocardiography or Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) – this will depend on staff availability and which patient lists are running during the individual's placement.
2) Pacemakers/Cardiac Devices – this will involve working with the cardiac physiologists in the pacemaker clinic, programming and troubleshooting cardiac devices, checking device parameters, and/or watching pacemaker implantation in the cardiac catheter lab - this will depend on staff availability and which patient lists are running during the individual's placement.
The sessions will most likely run from 08:00-18:00 across Mon-Fri, depending on staff availability and individual preference. For individuals interested in echocardiography, Specialist Echo currently has lists on Thursdays.
If the individual has a particular interest in a specific area of Cardiology/the cardiac physiologist role, please make this known before the placement, as the work experience can be amended to accommodate those interests.
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