CVT 112 - Cardiovascular Interventional Procedures

Description
This course provides an overview of the skills required of the invasive cardiovascular specialist for interventional procedures and prepares students for safe participation in clinical education. Procedural focus will be on percutaneous coronary interventions, cardiac assistive devices and modalities. This course will also cover peripheral, structural heart, and pediatric interventions.

Credit Hours: 4
Contact Hours: 5
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: None
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): None
Academic Program Prerequisite: Cardiovascular Technology Program
Consent to Enroll in Course: Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: No
Course Fees: $75.00
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Cardiovascular Technology, A.A.A.S., Cardiovascular Technology, Certificate

General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:

Practice hospital and cardiovascular catheterization lab environmental and safety measures.
Demonstrate safe pharmacological and contrast media practices to protect patient well-being and support patient outcomes.
Demonstrate procedural operations in foundational cardiovascular catheterization studies.
Demonstrate knowledge of lesion assessment and interventional catheterization equipment.
Demonstrate knowledge of cardiovascular anatomy and apply to coronary, peripheral, structural heart and pediatric interventions.

Course Outline:

Wk 1: Interventional Techniques

Wk 2: Atherectomy, Thrombectomy and Distal Protection

Devices

Wk 3: Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction

WK 4: Coronary Stenting

Wk 5: General Overview for Interventions for Structural

Heart Disease

Wk 6: Percutaneous Therapies for Valvular Heart Disease

Wk 7: Peripheral Intervention

Wk 8: Peripheral Stents and Balloons

Wk 9: Intervention for Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart

Disease

Wk 10: Cardiac Cell-Based Therapy: Methods of Application

Wk 11: Aortic Endovascular Grafting

Wk 12: Pericardial Interventions: Pericardiocentesis, Balloon

Pericardiotomy, and Epicardial Approach to Cardiac Procedures

Wk 13: Complete Total Occlusion Invterventions (CTOs)

Wk 14: Case Study Reviews and Final Exam

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
No
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture: 35-45%

Audio-visual content: 20-30%

Group work & Indiviudal Assignments: 15-25%

Discussion/Participation: 10-15%
Mandatory Course Components:
NA
Equivalent Courses:
NA

Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course-Specific Placement Test: NA
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: NA

Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
NA

Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture/Lab - Must meet Lecture & Lab Ratios
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
Total Lab Hours Per Week: 2
Total Fieldwork Hours Per Week: NA
People Soft Course ID Number: 105185
Course CIP Code: 51.9999
Maximum Course Enrollment: 25 Lecture/10 Lab
School: School of Health & Exercise Science
Department: Allied Health
Discipline: CVT
First Term Valid: Winter 2023 (1/1/2023)
1st Catalog Year: 2022-2023
Name of Course Author:
Julie Lackscheide

Faculty Credential Requirements:
Certification/License Requirement (list below), Program Accreditation Requirement (list below), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
1) Bachelor’s degree
2) Hold a cardiovascular credential from at least one of the concentrations identified in these
Standards;
3) Have at least two years’ experience in cardiovascular health care;

Course Review & Revision Year: 2027-2028