CVT2421C

This course is designed to provide students with the ability to relate various cardiac disease processes to interventions used to address them. The effects of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, pericardial issues, valvular disease, and congenital anomalies will be covered with the effect of each on hemodynamic monitoring. Students will become familiar with the various formulas and calculations performed in the catheterization lab for cardiac outputs, vascular resistance, valve areas, and shunts with detailed analysis of arterial and venous pressure waveforms of the heart and periphery. Students will routinely differentiate between pressure waveforms of the heart as well as the appropriate scale in hemodynamic monitoring. Students will differentiate between normal and abnormal waveforms.

5 (3 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours)

Associate in Science