Perfusion trainee
| Highest | $5,000 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 0–1 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | United States master's ~2 years |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $5,000max |
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $4,800 |
| CanadaIELTS 6.0–6.5 · CAD 20–40k | $4,800 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $4,750 |
| GermanyIELTS 6.5 · €0–3k | $4,700 |
| FinlandIELTS 6.0–6.5 · €6–18k | $4,700 |
What does the day look like?
You work in the cardiac operating room next to a supervising perfusionist. You prepare and check the heart-lung machine, oxygenators, reservoirs, tubing packs, cardioplegia delivery systems, cell-saver circuits and monitoring lines. On placement you meet Stockert S5 and Stockert S3 heart-lung machines, Maquet HL 40, Medtronic Bio-Medicus pumps and Terumo oxygenators, plus blood-gas analysers and activated clotting time monitors. You chart in the hospital electronic record and the centre's perfusion record system.
Standing at the pump during bypass is the small share of your time. The large share is setup, priming, checklists, stock control, documentation, blood-gas runs, equipment cleaning and testing, case observation and debrief. Work follows the cardiac theatre list: early starts, late finishes, weekend lists, night emergencies for dissection and transplant, and on-call rosters for trainee observers at larger centres.
Where does this lead?
Next step up
What do you make of this job?