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.