Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Cardiovascular Perfusion Techniques

What is the objective of the course? What is it?
What does it train you for?

Specifically, within the healthcare profession of cardiocirculatory physiopathology and cardiovascular perfusion technician, graduates are healthcare professionals responsible for the duties established by Ministerial Decree No. 316 of the Ministry of Health dated July 27, 1998, as amended; that is, they operate and maintain equipment related to extracorporeal circulation techniques and hemodynamic techniques.

Their duties are exclusively technical in nature; they assist medical personnel in appropriate environments by providing essential guidance or operating, always under medical guidance, equipment for hemodynamic diagnostics or for the replacement of cardiovascular functions.

Graduates in cardiocirculatory physiopathology and cardiovascular perfusion techniques plan, manage, and evaluate the necessary measures for the proper functioning of the equipment for which they are responsible; they ensure the correct application of the required support techniques; they carry out their professional activities in public or private healthcare facilities, as employees or freelancers; They contribute to the training of support staff and directly contribute to professional development and research in their fields of expertise.

What do you learn?

The graduate is able to:

• Apply theoretical knowledge in performing cardiovascular and respiratory diagnostic tests (ECG, monitoring, functional tests);
• Correctly use biomedical technologies to assess and support vital functions;
• Participate, with technical and professional autonomy, in the management of extracorporeal circulation and cardiovascular perfusion techniques;
• Collaborate in the management of implantable devices and mechanical circulatory support systems;
• Collaborate in the management of dialysis in nephrology departments and dialysis centers;
• Collaborate in the oncology field on district antiblastic treatment;
• Apply protocols, standard operating procedures, and guidelines, in compliance with the principles of safety and quality of care.

What can you do with it?

Graduates in Cardiocirculatory Pathophysiology and Vascular Perfusion Techniques can find employment, either as employees or as freelancers, in hospital, university, or private facilities:

• In cardiac surgery, conducting extracorporeal circulation;
• In oncology, for local antiblastic treatment;
• In nephrology, for dialysis treatment;
• In cardiology, for the technical execution of echocardiographic examinations, in hemodynamic and cardiac catheterization laboratories, in electrophysiology laboratories, and in outpatient clinics, for ECG, stress ECG, Holter ECG, PMK, and ICD instrumental monitoring;
• In community settings, for instrumental diagnostics in outpatient clinics and/or with the aid of telemedicine;
• In biomedical fields, in manufacturing industries and sales agencies operating in the sector, and in university and non-university research laboratories.

(Decrees on Classes, Art. 3, paragraph 7)