Cardiovascular Practicum II

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This course allows students to gain more in-depth clinical experience in invasive or non-invasive cardiology. Students must choose a specialty area, either invasive cardiology or adult echocardiography (non-invasive cardiology). If the student chooses invasive specialty, this includes 600 clinical hours in pre- and post-cardiac catheterization activities, diagnostic and interventional cardiac and vascular procedures, hemodynamic monitoring and calculations, and application of critical care therapies. Clinical practice includes duties in circulating, scrubbing, and monitoring roles, as well as manipulation for imaging equipment during both diagnostic and interventional procedures. If the student chooses adult echocardiography (non-invasive cardiology), this includes 600 clinical hours experience in performance of 2D echocardiography, performance and more in-depth clinical experience with cardiac pathology and calculations pertaining to the disease state, assisting in stress echo, pharmacological stress echo and transesophageal echocardiography.