Adult Echocardiography

  
Module Content - Part 1
 
 

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Module 1:

  • Common abbreviations
  • Overview of cardiac structure and function
  • Pulmonary and systemic circulations
  • Cardiac valves and chambers
  • Cardiac septation
  • External features of the heart
  • Cardiac circulation
  • Conduction system
  • Hemodynamics and the cardiac cycle
  • Provocative maneuvers

Module 2:

  • 2-D views
  • M-Mode evaluation

Module 3:

  • Doppler evaluation
  • Echocardiographic examination (suggested protocol)
  • Contrast studies
  • Transesophageal echocardiography
  • Stress echocardiography
  • Three-dimensional echocardiography
  • Doppler tissue imaging
  • Other cardiac imaging procedures
  • Systolic and diastolic ventricular function
  • Myocardial performance index

Module 4:

  • Introduction to valvular stenosis, insufficiency and prolapse
  • Mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonic stenosis

Module Content - Part 2

Module 1:

  • Mitral, aortic, tricuspid and pulmonic insufficiency
  • Mitral prolapse

Module 2:

  • Infective endocarditis
  • Prosthetic valves and related pathology
  • Introduction to acquired heart disease
  • Ischemic heart disease
  • Pericardial disease

Module 3:

  • Systemic hypertension
  • Pulmonary hypertension
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Cardiac tumors
  • Aortic disease
  • The aging heart
  • The transplanted heart

Module 4:

  • Embryology
  • Fetal and postnatal circulation
  • Congenital heart disease in the adult
  • Syndromes and miscellaneous conditions

Instructor: Margaret Corbett, RT(R), RDMS, RDCS, RVT

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