This course provides the student introductory experience in the interventional cardiovascular/vascular clinical environment. Emphasis is placed on introducing the duties of a cardiovascular invasive specialist including patient care, imaging procedure, and laboratory skills to demonstration a conscience for protocols and sterile instrumentation utilized in interventional procedures. Upon completion, students should be able to identify the use of basic cardiac catheterization equipment, demonstrate entry level abilities as a scrub assistant, apply specialized occupational theory, skills, and concepts of patient care as a supervised assistant in the interventional cardiac/vascular laboratories.

2014FA - New Course Version (S24119) New State Coreq: ICV 111