Components: Practical
Credit Hours: 5
Course Schedule: Semester system
After having adequate diagnostic skills and being able to identify most of the CV disease entities, it would be very reasonable to close the loop in the mind of students and proactively answer their question, “What should we do for these patients”? It is important for the students “as a future echo technologists “to know their active role in the management plan of patients. This is part of their role as health advocates and a self-motivation method. During this course, students are going to review the concepts and practices of CVD management for common CV diseases. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutic options are going to be discussed and property related to their clinical indications. Special emphasis is going to be paid to the catheter-based and surgical interventions particularly in relation to structural heart diseases for their type, timing and expected outcome of the procedure and the long-term benefits and plan of follow up.
