DUTEC 155 - Echocardiography

5 CR

Continues basic echocardiography. Students concentrate on Doppler echocardiographic techniques and congenital heart disease as relating to the practice of adult echocardiography.

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

Course Outcomes

Understand pathophysiology and echo findings for primary valvular disease.
Understand basic quantitative methods to evaluate valvular severity.
Understand echo findings for myocardial infarctions with complications.
Understand pathophysiology and echo findings for primary cardiomyopathies.
Understand pathophysiology and echo findings for pericardial disease (effusion, tamponade, and constriction).
Understand the role and fundamentals of transesophageal and stress echo.

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