More Adult Certified ECMO Specialist ability statements:
- Assists patients and family members with understanding ECMO support and related care
- Demonstrates expertise in caring for ECMO patients with multiple and complex problems
- Completes circuit priming sequences and ensures de-airing has occurred
- Completes functional testing of circuit components prior to clinical application
- Evaluates the effectiveness of plans of care and recommends revisions to the multidisciplinary care team
- Able to push PVC tubing onto a connector up to the second barb with aseptic technique
- Corrects damaged tubing, membrane oxygenators, connectors, and other circuit components
- Directs transport personnel during ECMO transport to ensure patient and caregiver safety
- Operates, maintains, calibrates, and performs quality control testing on all point of care laboratory equipment per protocols and CLIA requirements
- Maintains and manages the continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) circuit when placed in conjunction within the ECMO circuit