Experience

Fort Worth Heart

• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cardiac Device Technician

  • Dec 2005 - Present

  • Interrogation of cardiac resynchronization therapy, dual and single chamber pacemakers and defibrillators, Sub Q ICDs and loop recorders, averaging 18-30 patients per day. • Responsible for scheduling and tracking over 4,500 patients in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. • Vast training with cardiac resynchronization and electrocardiogram interpretation with respect to biventricular pacing devices. • Ability to perform complex and complicated programming sequences, data retrieval, and interpretation to make clinical assessments. • Knowledgeable in Cardiomessenger, CareLink, Latitude, and Merlin remote monitoring systems. • Independent management of device clinic and all associated responsibilities. • Provision of in-services and clinical training for device clinic staff on transtelephonic monitoring using PaceArt software and NextGen EMR system. responsibilities. •Continuing education achieved through coursework provided by Boston Scientific, St Jude Medical, Medtronic, Biotronik, and Dr. David Hayes. • Comprehension of research analysis and follow-up. Responsible for management of clinical studies (ACT registry, CLEAR trial, CONNECT trial, OptiVol Care Pathway, GALAXY registry, and PROVIDE trial). • Accountable for the overall administration and outcome of four clinical studies from the planning and approval stages through study completion and post-study closure data collection. • Coordinate and prepare site visits with CRA for site monitoring visits data compliance. Show less