CARD 190 — Clinical Hemodynamics
This course includes a review of hemodynamic concepts such as the physical principles of measurement, normal pressure values and how pressures should relate to each other, waveform morphology, breakdown of waveform components, and the cardiac cycle diagram. New concepts will include: hemodynamic assessment in the cardiac catheterization lab, waveform artifacts and pitfalls, cardiac output and shunts, mitral and aortic valve disorders, left ventricular hemodynamics, heart failure and shock, right -sided heart pressures, pulmonary hypertension, pericardial disease, restrictive myocardial disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. This course will also include coronary and peripheral artery hemodynamic s and the hemodynamics of congenital heart disease. Hemodynamic formulas and calculations will also be studied. Prerequisites: CARD-100, CARD-105, CARD-120, MATH-130, PHYS-110 Corequisites: CARD-150, CARD-155