Job Duties
Three main roles for techs in the cardiac cath lab
What is a monitoring, scrub, and circulating tech ?
The highest risk exposure for healthcare workers.
What are needle sticks?
Barrier protection that must cover the nose and mouth.
What are masks?
An infection that starts within 3 days of admission.
What is a nosocomial infection?
The father of coronary angiography.
Who is Mason Sones?
This role includes CPR and ACLS responsibilities.
Who is the circulating tech?
A prevention method that treats all blood as infectious.
What are universal precautions?
Another name for sterile technique.
What is aseptic technique?
The best way to prevent infection.
What is handwashing?
Physician who developed the percutaneous femoral artery technique in 1953.
Who is Dr. Seldinger?
This team member balances the transducer and sets up the manifold.
Who is the scrub tech?
A low-temperature sterilization method for heat-sensitive equipment.
What is hydrogen peroxide gas sterilization (STERRAD®)?
The complete absence of living microorganisms.
What is sterile technique?
Times when hands must be washed.
What are before/after patient contact, restroom use, blowing your nose, touching contaminated items, and removing gloves?
First used catheters with pre-formed curves in 1967.
Who is Melvin Judkins?
The team member responsible for patient care, sedation, and documentation
Who is the circulating tech?
The sterilization method using high heat and pressure.
What is steam autoclave?
The area considered sterile when a person is gowned.
What is the front of the gown and sleeves?
The place where patients are 5–10 times more likely to get infected.
What is the ICU?
Original coronary angioplasty balloons were first made in what type of location.
What is a basement?
The team member responsible for ECG and hemodynamic monitoring.
Who is the monitoring tech?
The incubation period range for Hepatitis C.
What is 2 to 26 weeks?
A minimum distance required when passing a sterile field.
What is 1–2 feet?
The three patient groups most likely to get hospital-acquired infections.
Who are heart transplant patients, HIV patients, and chemotherapy patients?
Performed the first PCI using a balloon in Zurich, Switzerland.
Who is Andreas Gruentzig?