Course Overview
This clinically based 16-week course for non-Sonographers provides practical experience in 2-D, m-mode and Doppler echo techniques. Upon successful completion, students will be able to integrate their academic knowledge with the practical skills necessary to perform echocardiograms in adult patients in normal and uncomplicated situations. This course is continued in ECHO 6006.
- Retired
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to perform the following skills in normal and uncomplicated situations:
- Demonstrate effective communication with patients and staff in the clinical environment.
- Demonstrate initiative, good organization, and team skills.
- Provide basic patient care (safety, washroom, oxygen, intravenous, infection control, transfer, trust).
- Prepare the scanner and patient for sonographic procedures.
- Demonstrate effective use of scanner controls.
- Obtain 2D and M-mode images of normal and abnormal structures in the adult heart.
- Perform Doppler examinations as necessary in each patient situation.
- Obtain cardiac measurements.
- Differentiate normal from abnormal echocardiographic findings.
- Correlate basic ECG patterns with echo findings.
- Demonstrate safe ergonomic practices.
- Identify the clinical question for a sonographic procedure on each patient.
- Integrate knowledge and practice in each situation.
Effective as of Fall 2007
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