Cardiovascular Interventional Technology Clinic I

Catalog description

This course is a beginning skills level clinical experience. This course provides clinical rotation hours at a clinical affiliation’s supervised laboratory hours that allow the student to apply information and skills gained from didactic instruction in patient assessment and care, as well as demonstrate familiarization with cardiac catheterization laboratory equipment in relation to scrub and circulating roles. The student performs skills which include sterile scrub performance, sterile gowning and gloving techniques, preparation of the bubble-less manifold, sterile-tray setting, and power-injector setting, as well as performance of skills required to assist physicians during diagnostic heart catheterizations and diagnostic peripheral procedures.