CVT 2421C - Invasive Cardiology II

3 hours Lecture, 3 credits
Lower-Division College Credit
Prerequisites: CVT 2420C
AA Elective: No
This course is designed to provide students with the ability to relate various cardiac disease processes to interventions used to correct them. The effects of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, pericardial issues, valvular disease, and congenital anomalies are covered with each event’s effect on hemodynamic monitoring. Various formulas and calculations are 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 routinely differentiate between pressure waveforms of the heart as well as the appropriate scale that each is recorded on with regard to hemodynamic monitoring. Students will differentiate between normal and abnormal waveforms and cause and effect of each.

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