CVS 203-Adult Cardiac Sonography III (Fall 2024)
Course Description
This course builds upon the evaluation and mechanisms of cardiac diseases covered in CVS-102 Adult Cardiac Sonography II. It delves into advanced topics such as congenital heart diseases, stress echocardiography, enhanced studies, three-dimensional echocardiography, heart transplants, and cardiac trauma. Students will employ critical thinking skills to integrate patient history, clinical data, advanced echocardiographic findings, and related imaging results to develop differential diagnoses and compile comprehensive technical reports.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss congenital heart diseases including the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, complications, related imaging examinations and treatments for each.
· Explain the sonographic techniques, measurements, quantitative principles and Doppler patterns for congenital heart diseases seen in adult cardiac sonography.
· Discus the indication, limitations, and technical procedures for the below echocardiography related studies:
o Stress echocardiography-exercise
o Stress echocardiography- pharmacology
o Transesophageal echocardiogram
o Enhanced studies (bubble study and contrast)
o Invasive and intraoperative testing and procedures
o Three-dimensional echocardiography
o Stain echocardiography
o Speckle tracing
· Explain echocardiography related imaging, laboratory and functional testing and modifications of echocardiography protocols based on findings.
- Discuss cardiac trauma, transplants and intracardiac devices including the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, complications, related imaging examinations and treatments for each.
· Explain the sonographic techniques, measurements, quantitative principles and Doppler patterns for trauma, transplants and intracardiac devises seen in the adult cardiac sonography examination
Prerequisite Courses
DMS-102 Ultrasound Physics II
CVS-102 Adult Cardiac Sonography II
CVS-102L Cardiac Scanning Lab II
CVS-112 Vascular Sonography II
CVS-112L Vascular Scanning Lab II
Corequisites:
DMS-200 Professional Growth and Development
CVS-213 Vascular Sonography III
CVS-203L Cardiac Vascular Scanning Lab II
Required Resources
· DeWitt, Susan King, Echocardiography ... From a Sonographer’s Perspective the Notebook & the Workbook 8 http://www.echonotebook.com/home.html
· Hagen-Ansert, S.: Textbook of Diagnostic Sonography, 9th Edition. Publisher: Elsevier, 2023,
ISBN-978-0-323-82646-4 (available electronically in the library)
· Lang, Roberto M: ASE’s Comprehensive Echocardiography, 3rd Ed. (2022) Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN 9780323698306 (available electronically in the library.)