DMSI 220 - Cardiac Sonography III and Lab

1. Describe cardiac contrast uses, methods, rationale, standards, limitations, guidelines, and regulations.
2. Demonstrate the processes performed with the use of cardiac contrast.
3. Identify different cardiac pharmacologic medication uses, limitations, effects, contraindications, and methods of administration.
4. Describe the uses, processes, and physics behind 3-D echocardiography.
5. Describe and demonstrate the methods and processes of both exercise and pharmacologic stress echocardiography
6. Describe and define cardiac masses and tumor and the pathophysiologic effects of these disease processes.
7. Describe and identify congenital anomalies with various post-surgical appearances and the pathophysiologic effect pre and post-surgical corrections.
8. Identify multiple systemic disease processes, pathophysiologic effects as well as monitoring of such conditions.
9. Describe the process and identify the images of transesophageal echocardiography
10. Demonstrate the sonographer’s role, methods and processes used in transesophageal echocardiography
11. Identify the processes, needs, rationale, imagery and procedures used in cardiac catheterization procedures.
12. Describe and identify intracardiac devices, shunts, intracardiac or cardiac assist devices and procedures such are used in and with such devices.
13. Identify considerations of the transplanted heart, associated conditions and post-surgical appearances.
14. Identify post-surgical pathophysiologic effects on the transplanted heart.
15. Describe methods and exam processes used with cardiac trauma patients
16. Understand differential diagnoses of pathologies covered in this course.
17. Define and understand cardiac strain and speckle tracking methods, uses, and efficacy in certain patients.
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• Pathologies such as transplant associated, cancerous conditions, and systemic diseases
• Methods used in the cardiac patient such as transesophageal echocardiography, 3D, and catheterization
• Methods used with cardiac contrast
• Cardiac trauma
• Stress echocardiography
• Alternate testing tools and methods

 
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