Cardiac Techniques II ((7 credit hours))

Catalog description

Presents content on additional cardiac pathologies including acquired and congenital heart diseases. Covers the relationship of echocardiography to patient history and physical examination, abstracting the clinical chart, indications for exam, and differential diagnoses. Discusses cardiovascular pharmacology, their potential effects on echocardiographic findings, and provocative agents and maneuvers. Includes a laboratory component to further develop scan skills and practice more advanced evaluations of Color Flow, Pulsed and Continuous wave Doppler findings, valvular stenosis severity, ventricular function, and abnormal cardiovascular hemodynamics and flow patterns and correlating Doppler findings. Lecture: 4 credits (60 contact hours). Laboratory: 3 credits (135 contact hours).