Specialty: Internal Medicine - Cardiology, Internal Medicine - Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Start date: ASAP
End date: Ongoing
Coverage type: Scheduled Clinic Hours + Call
Schedule: Coverage Needed:
EP Cardiology/Electrophysiology locum with the expected start date August 8th
Long term/locum to perm candidates STRONGLY PREFERRED.
Active Clean MI license only
8a to 4p
Call is shared 1:3 so provider will NOT be on call every night or every weekend
Athena EMR
Hybrid Cath Lab
Carto and Rythmia mapping systems, access to al biosense and boston Scientific catheters, cryo ballons. Medtronic and Boston Scientific for devices. All the usual implants including Micra and S-CD. Spectranetics laser and all Cook extraction products. Watchman and Lariates.
Work collaboratively with and be supported by a team of highly trained and certified lab techs, a well trained and certified group of staff in the device follow-up clinic and a group of APP s and office staff well versed in EP. Your work setting is in a brand new, state of the art facility (2019) with all of the tools you need to perform even the most complex procedures. You will work in the EP lab, see clinic office patients and consult on acute hospital patients. A typical week will includes seeing office patients 2 days per week and perform procedures in the EP lab 3 days per week. Call is for EP only, not general cardiology and is shared between 3 providers.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Current subspecialty certification or active participation in the examination process leading to subspecialty certification in clinical cardiac electrophysiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine or a Certificate of Added Qualification in clinical cardiac electrophysiology by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine, or the equivalent Canadian accrediting organization.
Typical Duties:
INPATIENT CARE
Admit , evaluate, treat and provide consultation to acute and chronically ill adult patients with a variety of heart rhythm disorders; including but not limited to sinus node dysfunction, atrioventricular (AV) and intraventricular block, and supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmia; clinical conditions of unexplained syncope, aborted sudden cardiac death, palpitations, Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, and long QT syndrome, care of patient in the cardiac care unit, emergency room, or other intensive care settings, before and after an electrophysiologic procedure; with temporary and permanent pacemakers; with postoperative arrhythmias and care of patients with ICDs.
CORE PROCEDURES
- Insertion and management of automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD) / cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
- Insertion of permanent pacemaker, including single/dual chamber and biventricular
- Interpretation of activation sequence mapping recordings, invasive intracardiac electrophysiologic studies, including endocardial electrogram recording and imaging studies
- Interpretation of results of noninvasive testing relevant to
Patients per shift:1-5
