Advanced specialist/ECMO Practice Examinations

The hardest perfusion and ECMO practice exam available. Built by a practicing CCP.

Most practice exams tell you what you already know. This one finds your gaps.

50 questions. 60 minutes. Six categories — CPB, ECMO, pharmacology, equipment troubleshooting, NRP/transplant, and complex clinical scenarios. Every question written at the level of real clinical decision-making, not textbook recall.

Topics include: — Harlequin syndrome and differential hypoxia on VA-ECMO — RotaFlow alarm failure and circuit safety — Heparin resistance, HIT, and alternative anticoagulation on ECMO — DuraPrep/polycarbonate connector failure — ECPR sequencing and refractory VF management — Oxygenator failure recognition and changeout thresholds — NRP cerebral exclusion and bile production as viability marker — Multi-crisis CPB management under time pressure

At the end you get a full category breakdown showing exactly where you need work.

Built by a Board Certified Clinical Perfusionist with 20 years of experience across cardiac surgery, ECMO, NRP, and transplant at 24 hospitals.

If you pass this exam easily, you're ready. If you don't, now you know what to study.