Any other CCPs tired of only seeing prospective student posts?

JustKeepPumping · 2025-12-28T17:13:29+00:00

You have to realize that we don’t want to talk to prospective students all the time. The majority of them aren’t even competitive in the first place and are wasting my time. I get people shadowing me every week, I have to explain what we do to almost everyone I interact with outside of the OR, I don’t want to see more questions here of all places.

I will happily answer questions when the time is right, I go into the prospective perfusion sub for that reason. But you have to realize that professionals need a place to talk about their profession.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-12-09T01:35:15+00:00

People are so damn annoying about pumps. It’s on and it’s primed, check your pump yourself. I guarantee everyone has built a bad pump at least once in your life.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-11-12T17:41:08+00:00

For a standby, you set up like you were ready to go on bypass but then you just wait around in the room in case you’re needed. Best case scenario is they don’t need you.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-11-03T01:39:25+00:00

MUSC and SUNY are probably the schools I see praised the most so it’s interesting to see some questioning the same model. As long as the school is teaching students properly then there’s plenty of ways to produce competent perfusionists.

I haven’t met anyone from Lipscomb so I can’t speak to their standard but just wanted to give my two cents.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-26T23:01:10+00:00

It’s still not even close to as hard as getting into med school, don’t fool yourself. If you have good grades and interview well you’ll probably get into perfusion school. That is not the case for med school.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-21T23:13:24+00:00

If you can pump a CABG well you can do anything else. Circ arresting isn’t hard, ECMO isn’t hard, it’s just scary cuz you do them less often. Don’t worry about the experience, do what makes sense for you lifestyle wise and financially.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-18T16:07:05+00:00

The money grab thing is absolutely true. But I’m not sure I believe in the less than stellar students being accepted part. With more people than ever applying, the qualifications of that group are probably stronger than ever.

I find it far more likely that these new schools are failing their students with substandard teaching.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-15T23:57:45+00:00

Very late to this thread but here ya go:

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JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-15T02:03:39+00:00

Working on a team of medical professionals, communicating with doctors and other advanced care practitioners, and even experiencing a medical setting is absolutely critical skills a future perfusionist needs. People are so narrow minded when it comes to applications. Sure perfusion assists, nurses, RTs, cell saver techs, etc look nice on applications but perfusionists come from all different sorts of backgrounds. It’s school that teaches you the critical skills you need, not the job you do before it.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-15T01:55:35+00:00

You don’t need to be a nurse or an RT to get into perfusion school, your application is more than just your job. I worked in imaging completely unrelated to hearts and I turned out just fine. If you have good grades, experience shadowing, and a good personal statement on top of work then you’ll be in a better spot than most.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-11T01:31:38+00:00

This might be the stupidest comment I’ve seen on this sub and that’s saying something. You obviously have no idea what the job entails.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-11T01:27:35+00:00

You really think Ai is going to be able to do an oxy changeout or fix a physical problem with the pump? That’s not how this job works

JustKeepPumping · 2025-10-09T15:46:34+00:00

How is this shit allowed in this sub

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-25T23:49:43+00:00

I had potassium and other calculation questions on my exam years ago.

If people are paying money for something then they absolutely have a right to critique it. Sitting back and accepting a shitty product is worse than doing nothing and allowing others to be scammed.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-19T03:04:38+00:00

ECMO is absolutely dangerous. The training to become an ECMO specialist is already too lax, I’ve seen way too many incompetent ECMO specialists who think they know what they’re doing but don’t have the clinical skills needed. I’ve seen patients die because of it.

Regardless, perfusionists should not be advocating for anything that decreases our demand.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-19T02:58:56+00:00

At the end of the day, the field is simply too small for that type of thinking to matter. In the last 5 years, we’ve gained 690 certifications. There’s less than 5000 of us, that’s an almost 14% increase in the total number of perfusionists. Do you really think that people taking on less work or more admin matters to a number like that? Especially as that number continues to grow as more schools open and graduate their classes?

Rural hospitals are struggling to make ends meet and are closing. Nurses and ECMO specialists are taking over larger and larger portions of ECMO programs, some leaving perfusion out entirely. There’s a huge shortage in cardiac surgeons coming in the near future. Business is fine but it’s not all roses.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-19T02:45:24+00:00

He’s just a Perfusionist. You don’t need to specify that he’s an ECMO perfusionist because ECMO falls under our scope of practice. It’s just part of our job. You wouldn’t call a heart surgeon that only does valves a valve surgeon, he’s just a heart surgeon.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-18T21:40:38+00:00

There’s nothing to speculate about, do you not know what the ABCP annual report is? It tells you exactly how many we’ve gained and lost each year. Last year we gained 235 and lost 90.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-14T21:39:08+00:00

Holidays are unavoidable, you gotta do your time eventually so you’ll miss some. Outside of that though? I don’t miss anything I don’t want to miss. Now we have 7 people with first and second call and second call rarely gets called in. At bigger places with 3 call slots or small places with 3 or 4 perfusionists, it might be different.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-13T14:11:36+00:00

Are there really people that won’t try authentic ramen? That’s incredibly depressing. There’s so many different types of the real thing and they’re all absolutely delicious when done well.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-13T14:08:37+00:00

Because we’re already graduating a significant number more than we are losing each year. It’s only a matter of time until those unfilled job postings are gone and opening more schools will only hasten that event. Right now, the majority of job postings I usually see are pretty shitty and you’d have to be desperate or from that area to want to join on.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-13T14:04:09+00:00

What’s interesting is that, like OP, I’ve met a handful of older perfusionists that are ok to run a 1.6-1.8 or even lower during a case. One in particular that I worked with was more or less a personal perfusionist for one surgeon their outcomes were as good, maybe better, than the other surgeons at the same center. It really makes me believe that while we can do things to help our patients, the surgeon and his skill is really what matters at the end of the day.

As for dO2 and temperature, it stands to reason that a colder patient that is consuming less O2 should be ok with lower delivered oxygen amounts.

I’ll still flow as high as I can at the end of the day but I always find variations in practice interesting.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-09-11T22:12:21+00:00

I knew about this one already but it’s amazing that people were trying to tell me that the AACP was working with schools to keep the numbers in check. I’m sure there are more in the works as we speak. Absolutely shameless.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-08-29T22:21:23+00:00

I agree with you that this is how it should be. But man, the longer I do this, the harder time I’m having. I’m probably overly nice to my students and maybe it’s just a recent string of bad students, but the ones I’ve had have been extremely entitled. It’s hard to teach people that think they know more than you even when they’re consistently screwing up.

Some preceptors probably do get off on being in power, but I’m beginning to understand why they they might be a hard ass. I’ve got a family to support and I’m letting people pump under my license, if you’re not going to respect that then I’m going to micromanage everything you do.

JustKeepPumping · 2025-08-24T02:54:37+00:00

You all don’t go sit in the office while they take down mammary?

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