Locum Cardiac Anesthesiologist

Location: Victoria

Locum Cardiac Anesthesiologist (100-2759)
Reference Number
100-2759

Island Health has an opportunity for a locum Cardiac Anesthesiologist. Located in Victoria, British Columbia, The Royal Jubilee Hospital is a 500-bed tertiary care facility and the referral centre for cardiac surgery patients on Vancouver Island. Cardiac cases total approximately 800 per year and consists of on-pump coronary artery bypass surgeries, complex valve surgery, aortic surgery, laser lead extractions, catheter based structural heart procedures, TAVIs, ECMOs, and TEVARs.

Other surgical services at Royal Jubilee Hospital include general, thoracic, bariatric, ENT, urology, vascular, orthopedic, ophthalmologic, and plastic surgery. It serves as a teaching centre for the University of British Columbia’s medical school and postgraduate medical education and our department is affiliated with both the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria.

You will function as part of a collegial 7-9 member cardiac anesthesiologist team and your work will involve cardiac and all other surgical specialties offered at this centre. Cardiac anesthesia accounts for about 60% of our practice.

Duties will include:

Cardiac anesthesia call with an opportunity to participate in general anesthesia call

Managing dedicated 24-hour coverage of a 9-bed cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVU) staffed by cardiac anesthesiologists

Providing peri-operative TEE service to all cardiac cases, CVU patients as needed, and occasional out-of-OR patients, including for EP procedures

Preoperative assessments of cardiac surgery patients

Anesthesia preoperative consultation clinic

Care of acute pain service patients

Teaching medical students and residents

The successful applicant must have current experience managing postoperative cardiac surgery patients in the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVU).

Qualifying credentials:

Eligible for full licensure with College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC

CMPA Membership

PALS

ACLS

Fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia

Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography certification or equivalent (NBE Advanced Perioperative TEE certification or equivalent desired)

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