DMSU-290 Introduction to Cardiac Ultrasound
This course is a condensed version of DMSU- 191 and DMSU-292. In this course, students will focus on normal anatomy, scan techniques, cardiac measurement, and new dynamics and case-study presentations. This course includes cardiovascular assessment techniques (TTE & TEE), physics and ultrasound review, and an introduction to the theoretical and practical principles of basic M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography examination of the adult heart. The students will also learn briefly about left and right systolic functions, ventricular diastolic filling functions, ischemic heart diseases, cardio-myopathies, hypertensive and pulmonary heart disease, pericardial diseases, valvular stenosis, valvular regurgitation, the prosthetic valves, endocarditis, cardiac masses and the potential cardiac source of embolus, diseases of great vessels, and adult and congenital heart diseases. Students will also practice Doppler measurements and calculations to assess the cardiac functions - EF, Qp/Qs, MVA, AVA by PISA method, DT, IVRT, left ventricular diastolic functions, pulmonary vein flow, and hepatic vein flow. This course is required to complete the vascular concentration of the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program.