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Trust, corrections, and sponsorship policy

The standards The Pump Room should follow before it asks anyone to trust it.

Editorial policy

Useful before clever.

The Pump Room prioritizes clarity, accuracy, humility, and usefulness. The site should explain what is known, what is uncertain, and what readers need to verify directly with official sources.

  • We do not publish medical advice.
  • We do not claim clinical authority.
  • We do not present one person’s experience as universal.
  • We separate editorial content from sponsored content.

Source policy

Claims need context.

Workforce, salary, job-market, certification, admissions, and regulatory claims should link to primary or official sources when available. If the best available source is indirect or imperfect, the page should say so.

American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion

2025 Annual Report and certification information

AmSECT Job Opportunities

Professional society job board and posting context

Perfusion.com

Established perfusion community, education, jobs, and events ecosystem

BLS Cardiovascular Technologists

Adjacent labor-market category used carefully, not as a direct perfusion proxy

AHRMM Value Analysis

Healthcare supply chain and value analysis context

FDA Medical Devices

Regulatory context for medical device information and claims

Corrections

No ego policy.

If a clinician, student, employer, school, or reader spots an error, The Pump Room should review it quickly. Corrections should be made in the page itself when possible, with a note if the correction is material.

Submit a correction

Sponsorship

Sponsored content must be clearly labeled.

Future sponsorships, job features, employer profiles, or partner content must be labeled clearly. Sponsors should not control independent editorial judgment. The Pump Room should not publish unsupported clinical claims or imply endorsement of a device, program, employer, or product without appropriate basis.

Disclaimer

Educational only.

The Pump Room is an independent educational resource. Content is for general information only and is not medical, legal, financial, admissions, or employment advice. Always verify requirements with schools, employers, certification bodies, licensing boards, and official sources.

Program data policy

Program pages need extra care.

Program requirements, deadlines, faculty roles, and accreditation status can change. The Pump Room should show last-reviewed dates where possible and link readers to official program pages and CAAHEP verification.

Directory sourceUse official program pages, CAAHEP, and reputable public directories as starting points.
Verification statusMark rows as draft, reviewed, or updated so readers understand how fresh the information is.
CorrectionsPrograms and clinicians should be able to request corrections or preferred public contact updates.
PrivacyDo not publish private contact information, student records, or patient details.

Shadowing privacy

How we handle shadowing requests and offers.

Shadowing information is treated more carefully than general comments because it may include personal background, location, schedule, and professional contact preferences.

Private by defaultStudent requests and professional contact details are not published automatically.
Permission requiredProfessional details should only be listed or shared after permission and wording review.
No patient informationSubmissions should never include patient names, case details, medical records, photos, or private hospital documents.
No guarantee languageThe Pump Room may organize interest and opportunities, but host sites and professionals control what is allowed.

Affiliate links

Affiliate links must be obvious, useful, and secondary to reader trust.

The Pump Room may use affiliate links in the future for books, tools, courses, or services relevant to perfusion, ECMO, cardiac OR careers, and applicant planning. Any affiliate relationship should be clearly labeled near the link or resource section.

Affiliate status should never decide whether a resource is included. Sponsored or affiliate content must not make unsupported clinical, admissions, exam-pass, employment, salary, or outcome guarantees.

Compensation survey privacy

Salary information needs extra care.

The Pump Room may collect compensation and work-life data to publish anonymous, aggregate trends. We do not publish names, emails, or exact employer-specific responses without permission.

Aggregate reporting

Results should be grouped by role, experience, setting, region, and schedule where there is enough data.

Small sample protection

If a category has too few responses, we combine it into a broader group or do not publish it.

Optional employer name

Employer name is optional and used only internally for review, duplicate-checking, or follow-up if the respondent allows it.

No confidential information

Respondents should not submit patient information, case details, protected health information, private documents, or anything they are not allowed to share.