LibGuides: Cardiovascular Technology: 2103 INVASIVE I

Course description

CVTC 2103 - Invasive Procedures I

Designed to prepare the student to enter the invasive cardiovascular field. Introduces the construction and purpose of specialized equipment and its role in invasive procedures. Topics will include invasive cardiovascular equipment, specialized equipment and cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator implantation. Includes lab component.

Specialized Equipment

Fluoroscopic x-ray unit/image intensifier
Physiologic monitor system
Contrast power injector
Densitometer and sensitometer
Transducer brackets
Intra Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP)
Defibrillator
ECG, BP, and pulse oximeter monitoring system with electrodes
Pacing generator
Catheters (various)
Indeflators
Swan Ganz
Manifolds
Strain gauge transducers
Hemostats
Hemostasis devices (sandbags, c-clamps)
Vascular seal devices-Angioseal, Vasoseal, and Perclose
Rotablators

Books

Cardiac Fibrillation-Defibrillation

True Memoir

Lightning Flowers by Katherine E. Standefer
In this gripping, intimate memoir about health, illness, and the invisible reverberating effects of our medical system, Standefer recounts the astonishing true story of her tumbling into a fraught maze of cardiology units, dramatic surgeries, and slow, painful recoveries. As her life increasingly comes to revolve around the internal defibrillator freshly wired into her heart, she becomes consumed with questions about the supply chain that allows such an ostensibly miraculous device to exist.