Clinical Skills:

During the training program the resident:

1. Uses knowledge of the effects of extracorporeal bypass to ensure its safe use;

2. Recognizes the correct and incorrect set-up and operation of an extracorporeal circuit;
   
   
3. Plans and uses extracorporeal circuits in clinical practice;
   
   
4. Understands and treats physiologic derangements caused by blood-artificial surface interaction;
   
   
5. Plans and uses ventricular support devices in clinical practice.