Advanced Cardiovascular Critical Care Background

Timothy V. Paone, BSN, RN IV, is a critical care nurse with over 17 years of progressive clinical experience in cardiac catheterization labs, cardiovascular ICUs, and heart transplant units. Currently practicing as a Cardiac Cath Lab RN IV at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas (2015–present), his role is circulating, monitors, and scrubs complex interventional cases including high-risk PCI, CTO, rotational atherectomy, IVUS/OCT, Impella CP/5.5, IABP, & ECMO. He is equally comfortable managing the sickest patients in the CCU, MICU, and heart transplant ICU, titrating multiple high-risk drips, interpreting hemodynamics, and leading resuscitation teams during STEMI alerts, therapeutic hypothermia, and cardiogenic shock.

Prior to Memorial Hermann, Timothy spent years in the Jefferson Heart Failure/Transplant ICCU at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, caring for patients on HeartMate II/III LVADs, Abiomed biventricular support, and Status 1A transplant listings. He later worked in the cardiac cath/EP lab at Abington-Jefferson Health and began his career in the trauma bay of Thomas Jefferson’s Level I emergency department.