Job Summary: Performs a variety of technical, patient-attending, and clerical duties pertaining to echocardiography.
Essential Responsibilities: • Obtains, measures, calculates, and records echocardiogram study. • Positions patient in manner that will facilitate optimum diagnostic results. • Selects transducer angulation. • Operates equipment in M-mode, 2D, and spectral Doppler and color Doppler techniques. • Searches for cardiac pathology. • Visualizes various anatomical areas of heart by way of Doppler and evaluates direction and speed of intracardiac blood flow. • Assesses cardiac valves for pathology. • Makes permanent record of significant functional and/or anatomical and pathological data obtained.
Reviewing and Reporting Echocardiography Data: • Reviews, screens, and measures echocardiography data notifying cardiologist of critical abnormalities. • Compiles, records, and collates data for cardiologist to interpret and sign for patients record.
Performing Echocardiography Studies: • Performs echocardiography studies on outpatients and inpatients according to level of expertise/experience of sonographer. • Performs Adult transthoracic echocardiogram, Transesophageal echocardiogram (machine set up: operation), Adult contract studies, Pediatric transthoracic echocardiogram, Adult stress echocardiogram (pharmacological and exercise), and Intraoperative echo (machine operation).
Equipment Maintenance and Operations: • Examines, cleans and maintains ultrasound equipment. • Refers significant problems to Biomedical Department and Alerts supervisor of equipment malfunction. • Ensures adequate stock of supplies. Replenishes supplies as needed.
Scheduling and Administrative Tasks: • Schedules patients for examinations. • Logs tests performed in echo lab and codes for proper fee collection. • Performs other varied clerical tasks such as typing, filing, and photocopying.
Training and Development: • Gathers, collates, and/or computes echocardiology data. • Orients and trains new hire diagnostic cardiac sonographers to conduct various echocardiography tests.
Certifications and Emergency Response: • Maintains cardio-pulmonary resuscitation certification and functions as performer, recorder, or circulator in Code 500 situations.