If you have ever thought about becoming an electrophysiology technologist, then this article is for you. You'll learn everything you need to know about becoming an electrophysiology technologist, where electrophysiology technologists work, how much they get paid, how you can become an electrophysiology technologist, some of the dangers involved in the job, when you can expect to retire and how you can make difference in the lives of the people you serve.
Your duties and responsibilities in this career are to prepare the patient for the procedure, ensure that all equipment and instrumentation is in working order, monitor the read-out or recording during the procedure, and assist with the lab analysis and interpretation of the data, passing on any issues to the patient’s physician or specialist.
As an electrophysiology tech, your job duties include placing a cardiac electrophysiology catheter in a patient, reading electrocardiograms, and interpreting the recordings to help diagnose heart problems.
Exam patients by doing electrocardiograms (ECG), electroencephalograms (EEG), install holters, mapas and cardiomemos on patients in need requested by their doctor.
Electrophysiology technologist can work at several institutions such as hospitals, private and public clinics and research laboratories.
In Québec, the qualifications needed to become an electrophysiology technologist include a college diploma such as the D.E.C., which is a three year program that includes 2 full years of studies and 1 full year of internship. We also have to become members of « l'ordre des technologues en imagerie médicale, en radio-oncologie et en électrophysiologie médicale du Québec. » ( OTIMROEPMQ ) in order to study and work in this field.
Electrophysiology technologists can earn between 22,94 $ / h and 31,37 $ / h. The salary depends on your experience and the time that you serve in the field.
Every electrophysiology tech must complete a certain amount of time to refresh our knowledge in our field at the « OTIMROEPMQ » online training courses.
Being an electrophysiology technologist isn't a dangerous job. However, we could encounter agressif patient once in while. Those kind of patients could punch you and could harm you and make you feel unsafe in your work place.
It is unlikely that electrophysiology technologists will be completely replaced by robots because we need to analyse every exam depending on the patients criteria's and computers are not able to do that any time soon.
An electrophysiology tech can retire at 55. However, some electrophysiology technologists retire much later.
As you can see, being an electrophysiology technologist requires a college degree, a membership from the « OTIMROEPMQ » and on the job training.
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