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DMS 56B: ADVANCED APPLICATIONS OF VASCULAR TECHNOLOGY

Foothill College Course Outline of Record

Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Summer 2025
Units: 2
Hours: 2 lecture per week (24 total per quarter)
Prerequisite: DMS 56A.
Degree & Credit Status: Degree-Applicable Credit Course
Foothill GE: Non-GE
Transferable: CSU
Grade Type: Letter Grade Only
Repeatability: Not Repeatable

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Describe imaging and non-imaging techniques for arterial, venous, and cerebrovascular studies.
  • Interpret doppler information as it relates to normal and abnormal flow states.

Description

Second course in the vascular series. Continuation of DMS 56A. Includes the advanced applications and principles of vascular technology. Emphasis on advanced examination of arterial and venous applications, including peripheral arterial and abdominal vascular systems. Intended for students in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program; enrollment is limited to students accepted in the program.

Course Objectives

The student will be able to:

  1. Describe non-imaging techniques of the peripheral arterial system
  2. Describe sonographic imaging techniques for normal peripheral arterial studies
  3. Describe sonographic imaging for abnormal peripheral arterial studies
  4. Describe imaging of arterial bypass graft
  5. Describe imaging of normal abdominal arterial vasculature
  6. Describe normal physiology of abdominal vasculature
  7. Describe kidney and liver transplant vasculature

Course Content

  1. Peripheral arterial non-imaging techniques
    1. Indirect assessment of arterial disease
  2. Duplex ultrasound scanning of normal arterial system
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  3. Sonographic imaging of abnormal peripheral arterial system
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  4. Sonographic imaging of arterial bypass graft
    1. Assessment
    2. Hemodialysis access
    3. Fistula
  5. Sonographic imaging of normal abdominal arterial and venous vasculature
    1. Aorta
    2. Iliac arteries
    3. Mesenteric arteries
    4. Renal arteries and veins
    5. Inferior vena cava
    6. Iliac veins
    7. Hepatoportal system
  6. Sonographic imaging of abnormal abdominal vasculature
    1. Aorta
    2. Iliac arteries
    3. Mesenteric arteries
    4. Renal arteries and veins
    5. Inferior vena cava
    6. Iliac veins
    7. Hepatoportal system
  7. Sonographic imaging of kidney transplant vasculature
    1. Arteries
    2. Veins
  8. Sonographic imaging of liver transplant
    1. Arteries
    2. Veins

Lab Content

Not applicable.

Special Facilities and/or Equipment

TV monitor, computer, DVDs.

Method(s) of Evaluation

Methods of Evaluation may include but are not limited to the following:

Written quizzes
Midterm exams
Comprehensive final

Method(s) of Instruction

Methods of Instruction may include but are not limited to the following:

Lecture presentations
Classroom discussions

Representative Text(s) and Other Materials

Kupinski, Ann Marie. Diagnostic Medical Sonography: The Vascular System, 3rd ed.. 2022.

Garbani, N., R. Kendoll, and A. Kupinski. Workbook for Diagnostic Medical Sonography: A Guide to the Vascular System, 3rd ed.. 2022.

Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing, and Outside of Class Assignments

Weekly reading of texts.

Discipline(s)

Diagnostic Medical Technology