Original job description
The Interior Heart & Surgical Centre is seeking a Cardiac Surgical Assistant to join our group.
Located in the city of Kelowna, the Interior Heart & Surgical Centre is the main referral centre for the Interior Health Authority (IH) of British Columbia (population 750,000). The Cardiac Surgery Program offers the whole spectrum of cardiac surgical services short of transplantation. There is an 8 bed Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU), 8 bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) and a 16-bed Cardiac Surgery Inpatient (CSIP) ward. Heart transplants and pediatric (child) cardiac surgeries are not performed at KGH. The Cardiac Surgery Program is comprised of more than 100 medical and clinical staff, including 5 cardiac surgeons, cardiac anaesthetists, perfusionists, clinical nursing staff, anaesthesia assistants, and support staff.
As the Cardiac Surgical Assistant, you will provide aid in exposure, hemostasis, closure, and other intraoperative technical functions that help the surgeon carry out a safe operation with optimal results for the patient. It is expected that the Cardiac Surgical Assistant will be able to perform independently in the OR to retrieve vascular conduit. In addition to intraoperative duties, the Cardiac Surgical Assistant also performs preoperative and postoperative duties to better facilitate proper patient care. The Cardiac Surgical Assistant will also provide on-call services.
In this position, you will also have the opportunity to discover the rewards of clinical teaching with 3rd- and 4th-year medical students of the UBC Southern Medical Program completing 1–2-week rotations with our program.
We are excited to add enthusiastic and hardworking experienced candidates to our team at KGH. Apply today to live, work, and play where others only vacation! It's better here!
Please email your CV and expression of interest to physicianrecruitment@interiorhealth.ca.
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Responsibilities
Assist cardiac surgeons with exposure, hemostasis, closure, and other technical tasks during operations, including independently retrieving vascular conduit. Perform preoperative and postoperative patient-care duties, provide on-call services, and participate in teaching medical students.
Requirements
The posting seeks an experienced, enthusiastic, and hardworking candidate for a Cardiac Surgical Assistant role. Candidates are expected to perform independently in the operating room, including vascular conduit retrieval; no specific education or credential requirements are stated.
Skills
- Intraoperative Surgical Assistance
- Surgical Exposure
- Hemostasis
- Wound Closure
- Vascular Conduit Retrieval
- Preoperative Patient Care
- Postoperative Patient Care
- On-Call Coverage
- Cardiac Surgery
- Clinical Teaching
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Keywords
- Cardiac Surgery
- Cardiac Surgical Assistant
- Operating Room
- Intraoperative Assistance
- Surgical Exposure
- Hemostasis
- Surgical Closure
- Vascular Conduit Retrieval
- Preoperative Care
- Postoperative Care
- On-Call Services
- Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit
- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Cardiac Surgery Inpatient Ward
- Clinical Teaching
- Medical Students
- Patient Care
- Cardiac Surgeons
- Cardiac Anaesthesia
- Perfusionists
