Programs

Fundamentals of Adult Echo
70 Clock Hours 11 week

Program Description:

This curriculum is designed for students advanced on going education, in other modalities of ultrasound. This will allow students to become more marketable in the ultrasound field. Students will learn the basic knowledge needed to work as an echo technician.

 

Course Number	Course Title	Clock Hour
EC 110	Cardiovascular Anatomy & Physiology	4 Hours
EC 111	Physics	3 Hours
EC 112	EKG	8 Hours
EC 113	Pathology	10 Hours
EC 114	Hands on Echo Training Total Clock Hours	45 Hours 70 Hours

EC 110 – Cardiovascular Anatomy & Physiology
This course is designed to provide an in-depth study of cardiovascular anatomy & physiology including circulatory hemo-dynamics, cardiac output, stroke volume, and control mechanisms. 

EC 111 – Physics
This course will continue the concepts of cardiovascular hemo-dynamics, and instrumentation including 2-D, 3-D, Doppler, Spectral analysis, and other related topics to help students complete their knowledge of ultrasound physics.

EC 112 – EKG
Basic knowledge of medical terminology students are introduced to related to EKG, cardiovascular system, infection control, operation of the EKG machine, interpret and analyze EKG strips, and theory and EKG applications of dysarrhythmia and myocardial infarction.

EC 113 – Pathology
Comparison of normal sonographic patterns with pathology appearance. Review of right and left functions including ventricular, atrial, and valvular, abnormalities, assessment of coronary anatomy, and hemo-dynamics, waveform morphology analysis in clinical settings.

EC 114 – Hands on Echo Training
The student’s will learn hands on scanning techniques in all cardiac aspects.