European Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion
Portugal
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History
In Portugal cardiac surgery has started in the last 60s,
and the first portuguese perfusionist started his job in 1969.
Nowadays there are seven centres of cardiac surgery in the
mainland and a surgery service in Madeira which is also
able to do cardiac surgery. We are a total of 34
perfusionists, number that also includes people attending
formation courses. The APP (Portuguese PerfusionistsAssociation)
history has begun in 1995, when the first delegates were
appointed for the EBCP ( European Board of Cardiovascular
Perfusion). In 1996 the association was legally constituted.
By that time there were 25 perfusionists in Portugal. In 1997
the members of the board were elected in Geral Assembly and
APP truly starts its activity. The main targuet of the
association this year was to create a protocol of cooperation
between the APP and the different centres of cardiac surgery.
This would enable the creation of a formation programme
acredited by EBCP, which we actually could get.
During 1998 and 1999 the association has developed efforts so
that its structure is strengthened,not only among the
portuguese perfusionists, but also between foreigners. In
2000 the first cientific meeting was organized in Coimbra, and
in 2001 we are preparing the second meeting in Lisbon.This
year will also be pointed as the year when we made an
agreement of cooperation with AEP (Spanish PerfusionistsAssociation). |
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| The relations between EBCP and FECECT are gradually
being firmed and there is a portuguese delegate who is often in
contact with both institutions. All the portuguese perfusionists are
registered by EBCP and the ones attending formation courses will
have to attend the european exam,whose approval is essential if they
want to start their job as a perfusionist in Portugal.
The Portuguese Association of Perfusionists will support
FECECT with the organisation of the 10th European Congress of
Perfusion in Madeira.This , we hope, will contribute for the
strengthen of our assoiciation and for its international reputation |
Perfusion education
programme
In 1997 a group of people selected among the members of the
association (APP) developed a perfusionists´formation programme
which was approved by all the cardiac surgery centres in Portugal.
All the candidates for a perfusionists place would have to have
attended the cardiopneumology course as a basis this was just a
bachelorship. However this course has been recently restructured and
takes now four years and so having achieved the degree of
licentiate. This basical formation would be completed with more
two years of specific formation given in formation
centres. During the first year of formation students should attend a
week of teorical and pratic/teorical lessons once a month, where
they are taugth about specific subjects; this makes a total of 35
weekly hours and 385 annually hours of formation. The students of
the first year are also compelled to attend at least 25 CECs
directly surpevised. During the second year pupils would have to do
at least 100 CECs with indirect supervision, which means there is
another perfusionist in operating room.Another thing we require is
that at least 10% of the CECs were of pediatric surgery. The
responsible team for this formation would be made up of a
perfusionist, an anaesthesyologist and a surgeon; the perfusionist
would be the responsible for formation and the final exam would be
the european exam by EBCP. This project of formation was not
implanted in most of portuguese cardiac surgery centres, and
so it is essential to revise it as soon as possible in parternership
with other instituitions national and international. This programme
would be teorically developed during the first year and during the
second year it would be applied practically.It is constituted of
nine basical subjects perfectly defined, although they are
parcially flexible because of the different techniques of each
centre. In the year of celebration of the 10th year of EBCP, the
Portuguese Association of Perfusionists is joining this conference
so that we will develop the quality of the formation of portuguese
perfusionists. |
Cardiac surgery in
the Portugal
| Hospitals |
Open
heart cases |
Clinical
perfusionists |
Certified
perfusionists by ECPB |
Students |
| Sta.
Marta |
900 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
| Sta.
Cruz |
850 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
| Cruz
Vermelha |
850 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
| Sta.
Maria |
550 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
| Universidade
de Coimbra |
1050 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
| S.
João |
750 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
| Vila
Nova de Gaia |
500 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
| Cruz
de Carvalho |
80 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
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