DMS 209 - Clinical Sonography III

Institution:

Columbus Technical College

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Description:

This course provides students with continued work experience in a hospital or clinic setting. Students improve skills in performing procedures introduced during previous didactic and clinical courses. Instructors emphasize the identification of normal and pathologic conditions learned concurrently in didactic and laboratory hours in Interventional Sonography, Pediatric Sonography, Abnormal Obstetric Sonography, and Introduction to Vascular Sonography as well as refining the scanning ability of students in procedures previously presented in Pelvic Sonography and Pathology, Abdominal Sonography and Pathology, Normal Obstetric Sonography, and High Resolution Sonography. Topics include equipment manipulation for optimum image resolution sterile techniques drainage and fluid recovery procedures, including thoracentesis, paracentesis, and amniocentesis freehand and attachment guided biopsy, including breast biopsy and prostate biopsy pathology and abnormal conditions in obstetrics, including the gamut of pathology in the neonate, such as intracranial bleeds, masses, and duodenal atresia, organ malformations, maternal conditions effecting pregnancy ectopic pregnancies patient care issues: patient preparation, fundamentals of patient history taking, confidentiality, pertinent clinical laboratory values, and communication. Sonographic examinations are conducted under direct and indirect supervision. Prerequisite: DMS 2,0,2)

Credits:

8.00

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Instructional Type:

Lab

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Institution Website:

www.columbustech.edu/

Phone Number:

(706) 649-1800

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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