CVT 1801L - Cardiovascular II Pre-Practicum

16 hours Lab, 5 credits
Lower-Division College Credit
Prerequisite(s): CVT 1800L
AA Elective: No
This course provides supervised laboratory hours that allow the student to apply information and skills gained from didactic instruction in patient assessment and care, and demonstrate familiarization with cardiac catheterization laboratory equipment in relation to scrub and circulating roles. The student performs controlled clinical skill-based scenarios to prepare for the real clinical setting. Skills-check scenarios are timed and include sterile scrub performance, sterile gowning and gloving techniques, preparation of the bubble-less manifold, sterile-tray setting, and power-injector setting, as well as performance of skills required to assist physicians during diagnostic heart catheterizations and diagnostic peripheral procedures.

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