Echocardiography - Georgia Northwestern Technical College

Echocardiography from Georgia Northwestern Technical College is a Campus Associate Cardiology degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Program Description: The Echocardiography, Associate Degree program is a sequence of courses that provide educational opportunities to individuals in didactic and clinical environments that will enable them to obtain skills, knowledge and attitudes necessary to graduate and become successful entry-level Echocardiographers. Echocardiography is an allied health profession specifically concerning the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiac diseases. The profession requires critical thinking skills, judgment, and the ability to provide appropriate health care services. An echocardiographer performs examinations at the request or under direct supervision of a physician, is proficient in the use of analytical equipment, and provides a foundation of data from which a correct anatomic and physiologic diagnosis can be made. Echocardiographers use high frequency sound waves to produce dynamic visual pictures of the heart and related vasculature. The images are evaluated by physicians to make a medical diagnosis. Course work includes sonographic physics, sonographic identification of normal and abnormal anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pathophysiology of the heart, journal and case reviews, and a comprehensive registry review. Program graduates are expected to be able to perform appropriate cardiac procedures including, but not limited to, two dimensional B-Mode imaging, color fl ow Doppler, and spectral Doppler, M-Mode, electrocardiography, and exercise stress testing. Program graduates are to be competent in the general areas of humanities or fine arts, social or behavioral sciences, natural sciences or mathematics, computer literacy. Program graduates receive an Echocardiography, Associate Degree. They are eligible to sit for the national certification examinations administered by Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI) and/or the American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS)registry in Cardiology and are employable as entry-level Echocardiographers. View more details on Georgia Northwestern Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Cardiology courses.