CVT 2421C - Invasive Cardiology II

3 hours Lecture, 3 credits
Lower-Division College Credit
Prerequisites: CVT 2420C
AA Elective: No
This course provides students with a study of the relationship between various cardiac disease processes and the 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 formulae and calculations are used in the catheterization lab to determine cardiac output, 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 used to record information with regard to hemodynamic monitoring. Students analyze and differentiate normal and abnormal waveforms, and explore the cause and effect of each.

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