Cardiac Anesthesia locums position for weeks in 2025 in Little Rock, Arkansas! If interested contact Meghan Collins @972-505-7251

Schedule/Availability Requirements:
Mon – Fri 7a-3p

2025 DATES
2/17-2/21
3/17-3/21
5/19-5/23
must be CV for ongoing coverage

Setting: Level II Trauma Center, Strong CV program

Duties: Performing anesthesia in CV cases, supervising CV CRNA(s), performing TEEs, and placing epidurals.

Required Procedures: Facile with TEE and comfortable doing all CV cases, excluding transplants, including Ecmo and thoracic cases. Able to perform epidurals.

EMR: CERNER

Support Staff: CV CRNA team and CV MD team.

Credentialing Information:

Timeframe: 2-3 weeks

Requirements:

Additional Details / Questions Answered by Facility:

Ratio of MDs to CRNAs on a daily basis? ¾-1
Any times during the day/on-call that our provider will be running their own room? Occasionally, if the need arises but someone will take over your supervision of the CRNAs.
Any responsibilities for cases aside from cardiac/vascular/thoracic? Possibly, if the CV caseload is down on a certain day.
Do we have any idea of typical volumes of cases, including open hearts? Two ORs running most of the day. Will get case volume and send.
Is a cardiac fellowship required? Is a TEE certification required? I don’t believe fellowship is required but TEE certification would be helpful.

Regarding call: What are the start and end times of the weeknight and weekend primary and backup pager calls? Not needed.
Is this 100% supervision? YES
What TEE system is used? Phillips with x8 probes? Siemens
case volume per day in general, and how many of them will be cardiac cases. : Average case volume is 60 with 8-10 CV Plus TEEs, intubations, a-lines.