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CIP PROGRAM: 51.0906
Perfusion Technology/Perfusionist.

Summary: A program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and nurses, to operate extracorporeal circulation and autotransfusion equipment during medical procedures and surgeries where the support or temporary replacement of a patient's own respiratory or circulatory system is required. Includes instruction in equipment selection and operation, physician and medical team consultation, patient condition monitoring, procedural techniques, and principles of respiratory and circulatory physiology.

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Change - -100.00% +39.36%

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Institutions granting degrees in Perfusion Technology/Perfusionist.

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