Course Description:

The course aims to further enhance students' cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor skills in performing ultrasound-guided procedures and using contrast-enhanced exams. It will also cover sonographic examinations for musculoskeletal and pediatric cases, exploring the pathological processes of diseases, including their clinical manifestations, relevant laboratory data, diagnostic tools, and eventual outcomes. Students will become familiar with sonographic images that depict both diseased and healthy states.

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

·       Discuss the use of contrast in ultrasound

·       Define the role of the sonographer in ultrasound guided interventional and interoperative exams

·       Identify anatomy, relational anatomy, anatomic variants, and sonographic appearances of normal abdominal anatomical structures.

o   Non-vascular upper and lower extremities for musculoskeletal sonography

o   Superficial soft tissue structures

o   Neonatal/infant head

o   Neonatal/infant hip

o   Neonatal/infant spine

o   Lungs

·       Define, describe, and explain physiology and pathophysiology in the normal and abnormal structures listed above.

·       Discuss sonographic techniques, measurements, sonographic appearances, and basic Doppler patterns, where applicable, in both normal and abnormal structures listed above.

Required Texts:

·       Hagen-Ansert, S.: Textbook of Diagnostic Ultrasonography, 9th Ed. (2023) Publisher: Elsevier, ISBN- ISBN: 978-0-323-82646-4

·       Rumack, C. M., & Levine, D. Diagnostic Ultrasound. Elsevier, 2024

Kawamura, Diane M., Nolan, Tanya D... Abdomen and Superficial Structures. 5th Edition. Two Commerce Square, 2001 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 USA:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2023. Available from: Books@Ovid at http://ovidsp.ovid.com. Accessed August 14, 2024.