DUTEC 160 - Vascular Ultrasound Technology

3 CR

Presents current theory and scanning techniques for medical sonographers. Students learn Doppler techniques used to diagnose peripheral vascular and cerebral vascular disease.

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into program or permission of program chair.

Course Outcomes

Identify by name and relative position, all vascular vessels and structures pertinent to the clinical non-invasive vascular studies and protocols covered in this course including: intracranial and extracranial cerebrovascular, upper and lower extremity arterial and venous, and abdominal arterial and venous studies.
Describe basic protocols and disease criteria for all of the different clnical studies covered in this course (see above).
Identify basic pathology as relates to the different clinical studies covered in this course.
Describe hemodynamics as they relate to the vasculature, anatomy, pathology and interventional procedures.
Identify and quantify vascular disease via clinical case studies.

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