M-9, r. 3 - Regulation respecting the professional activities which may be performed by a clinical perfusionist

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2012-09-01

3. A clinical perfusionist may perform the following professional activities:

(1)  starting, supervising, maintaining, transporting, discontinuing or stopping the circulatory supports;

(2)  regulating oxygen flow-meters on the circulatory supports;

(3)  administering medications or other substances through injection or inhalation in the circuit of the circulatory supports;

(4)  adjusting the anticoagulation according to coagulation time and hematologic tests;

(5)  performing arterial and veinous samples through catheters already in place or through the circuit of the circulatory supports;

(6)  performing, analyzing and interpreting blood gas and performing the necessary regulation of the oxygen flow-meters on the circulatory supports;

(7)  inducing hypothermia or hyperthermia by way of circulatory supports;

(8)  starting and discontinuing the circulatory arrest during an extracorporeal circulation;

(9)  performing a treatment by way of ultrafiltration or hemodialysis through the circulatory supports;

(10)  starting and supervising the devices used for autotransfusion and plasmapheresis in the operating room or in the intensive care unit;

(11)  irrigating the arterial or veinous catheter with a heparin solution;

(12)  programming the pacemaker.

O.C. 520-2005, s. 3.