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Congenital Heart Disease: Diagnosis

Description: Heart defects are the most common birth defect in the United States, occurring in about 1% of all live births, or a total of 40,000 newborns a year. Congenital Heart Disease (also termed Congenital Heart Defects) includes atrial and ventricular septal defects, patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonary stenosis and other valvular diseases, coarctation of the aorta, double outlet right ventricle, transposition of the great arteries, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This course presents the imaging techniques used to diagnose congenital heart defects.

COURSE OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION
1. Course Information
2. Interface Tour
3. Course Overview

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
4. Objectives
5. Echocardiography
6. Fetal Ultrasound
7. Cardiac Catheterization
8. Cardiac Output and IVUS
9. Electrocardiogram (ECG) Function
10. Chest X-Ray
11. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
12. Progress Check

CONCLUSION
13. Summary

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students completing this course should be able to:

List various noninvasive imaging techniques, including ECHO and MRI
Describe how cardiac catheterization is performed
Detail the measure of cardiac output
Describe the imaging mechanism in ECGs and Doppler ultrasounds

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