Perfusionist-Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center-Full Time

Atlantic Health System; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health System seeks a Staff Perfusionist to operate and maintain the heart-lung machine during cardiopulmonary bypass, ensuring optimal perfusion and hemodynamics in cardiac surgeries. You will manage physiologic parameters, monitor circuit function, and collaborate with the surgical and anesthesia teams.

The role also supports quality assurance, education, and ongoing departmental improvements, including ECMO initiation, HIPEC and AngioVac procedures, and using iStat/TEG for

Responsibilities

• Operate the Heart/Lung machine during cardiopulmonary bypass to maintain cardiac output and hemodynamics.
• Administer medications and blood components through the extracorporeal circuit.
• Draw blood samples from the extracorporeal circuit and adjust blood gas parameters.
• Maintain adequate anticoagulation during bypass.
• Initiate ECMO and monitor patients on ECMO.
• Operate the cell saver.
• Operate the HIPEC machine and AngioVac circuit.
• Maintain quality controls for iStat and TEG and interpret results.
• Collaborate with OR staff to ensure safe cardiac surgery.
• Build, maintain, prime and breakdown perfusion equipment as needed.
• Assemble and monitor ventricular assist device.

Skills

Heart-lung machine operation

ECMO initiation & monitoring

Intraoperative perfusion management

Team collaboration

Quality assurance

Blood component administration

Equipment maintenance

Ventricular assist device assembly

Tools

Heart-Lung Machine

ECMO

HIPEC machine

AngioVac circuit

iStat

TEG

Cell saver

Job description

A Staff Perfusionist operates and maintains the heart-lung machine and related equipment during cardiopulmonary bypass and other extracorporeal procedures. They ensure optimal patient perfusion by managing physiological parameters, monitoring equipment function, and collaborating closely with the surgical and anesthesia teams. The role also includes participation in quality assurance, education, and ongoing departmental improvement initiatives.

Job Functions:

• Responsible for operating the Heart/Lung machine while safely maintaining patient cardiac output, tissue oxygenation, and hemodynamics during cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Administers medications and blood components through the extracorporeal circuit.
• Responsible for drawing blood samples from the extracorporeal circuit and making adjustments to maintain normal blood gas parameters.
• Maintains adequate anticoagulation during cardiopulmonary bypass.
• Initiates ECMO and monitors patients while on ECMO.
• Operates the cell saver.
• Operates the HIPEC machine and AngioVac circuit.
• Maintains quality controls for iStat and TEG as well as interpreting results.
• Works closely with the other members of the operating room team to provide the safest and best possible care to patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
• Build, maintain, prime and breakdown perfusion equipment, as needed.
• Assembles and monitors ventricular assist device.