Academic Catalog

DMS 56A: VASCULAR SONOGRAPHY

Foothill College Course Outline of Record

Foothill College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Summer 2025
Units: 3
Hours: 3 lecture per week (36 total per quarter)
Prerequisite: DMS 50A.
Degree & Credit Status: Degree-Applicable Credit Course
Foothill GE: Non-GE
Transferable: CSU
Grade Type: Letter Grade Only
Repeatability: Not Repeatable

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Identify and illustrate vascular anatomy.
  • List pathological conditions altering vascular flow.
  • Analyze doppler spectral waveforms of normal versus abnormal flow.

Description

First course in a series of vascular anatomy and physiology, and vascular principles. Includes Doppler physics and interpretation of spectral analysis, arterial and venous anatomy, and cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular applications. 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 normal arterial anatomy
  2. Describe normal arterial physiology
  3. Describe normal venous anatomy
  4. Describe normal venous physiology
  5. Describe Doppler physics and instrumentation
  6. Describe the normal cerebrovascular system
  7. Describe normal carotid exam
  8. Describe abnormal carotid exam
  9. Identify clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings for vascular disease

Course Content

  1. Sonographic imaging of normal arterial anatomy
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  2. Physiology of normal arterial anatomy
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  3. Sonographic imaging of normal venous anatomy
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  4. Physiology of venous anatomy
    1. Lower extremity
    2. Upper extremity
  5. Doppler physics and instrumentation
    1. Spectral waveform analysis
    2. Color Doppler
    3. Hemodynamics
  6. Sonographic imaging of the normal cerebrovascular system
    1. Extracranial duplex ultrasound exam findings
    2. Carotid arterial system
    3. Intracranial cerebrovascular system
  7. Sonographic imaging of abnormal cerebrovascular system
    1. Extracranial ultrasound duplex exam findings
    2. Carotid arterial system
    3. Intracranial cerebrovascular exam findings
    4. Surgery and intervention for abnormalities
  8. Clinical signs, symptoms, and laboratory findings for vascular disease

Lab Content

Not applicable.

Special Facilities and/or Equipment

DVD/TV, computer.

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. 2022.

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

Weekly reading of texts.

Discipline(s)

Diagnostic Medical Technology