Echo Technician II

Echo Technician II

Requirements

• Graduate of an CAAHEP accredited echocardiography program with 800 clinical hours.
• Experience working as an echo sonographer.
• Knowledge of Congenital heart defects.
• Knowledge of professional regulation and facility/program accreditation requirements.
• Knowledge of all aspects of Basic Life Support (BLS) emergency care.
• Infection control knowledge.
• Knowledge of patient handling techniques and procedures and protocols necessary to provide patient safety.
• Quality control analysis.

Responsibilities

• Clean the equipment, perform transducer cleaning, TEE cleaning, and electrical leakage testing in accordance with all infection control policies.
• Respond to emergency callbacks within the designated timeframe in accordance with departmental policy.
• Maintain equipment, troubleshoot equipment, and alert clinical engineering and management staff when equipment issues arise.
• Participate in the department Continuous Performance Improvement program and related activities including evaluation of their own work and the work of peers in a professional manner.
• Perform transthoracic echocardiograms (TTE) and transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE), stress echos (SE) in accordance with department policy and protocols, obtaining all required views as well as additional views to provide a highly diagnostic study.
• Prepare images and data in a preliminary report in designated reporting system i.e. cardiology PACS or EMR system prior to physician reading the study.
• Ensure patient safety by inspecting TEE probe for use, confirming leakage test completed and proper positioning of patients for all testing.
• Record all required measurements in 2-d and M-mode as well as advanced measurements per policy and protocol.
• Obtain all required views quickly and efficiently when conducting stress echocardiograms including post-exercise views routinely within sixty seconds of the end of the exercise.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.