The Comprehensive Vascular Interpretation & RPVI Registry Review Online Course prepares students for the Alliance for Physician Certification and Advancement (APCA) Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation (RPVI) Certification Exam, which is required for the American Board of Surgery’s Vascular Surgery Qualifying Examination.
Expert instructors lecture extensively in this modular, interactive online course on vascular imaging interpretation and diagnostic criteria. Physics, Carotid Imaging, TCD Exams, Abdominal Aorta & Endograft Imaging, Abdominal Visceral Duplex, Peripheral Arterial (Direct & Indirect), Peripheral Venous (including insufficiency), QA, Safety, and Bioeffects are covered.
The online course includes 135 interactive case presentations and a log of completed cases, 100 of which meet the APCA Clinical Vascular Ultrasound Experience prerequisite. The online course comprises four certification exam-like mock exams.
OBJECTIVES OF Vascular Interpretation:
- Enhance participants’ capability to perform and interpret vascular ultrasound exams and pass the RPVI certification exam.
- Analyze Doppler/Color physics aspects affecting ideal exams and frequent artifacts affecting diagnosis accuracy.
- Detect carotid, peripheral arterial, and venous disease using imaging, spectral, and color Doppler.
- Discuss indirect testing for lower extremity arterial disease.
- Assess carotid, peripheral venous, and arterial disease using diagnostic criteria.
- Interactively evaluate difficult carotid and peripheral vascular case studies.
- Examine abdominal visceral (renal, mesenteric, and hepatic) imaging, spectral Doppler, and Color Doppler for abnormalities.
- Identify ultrasonography findings of aortic endograft leakage.
- Identify normal and problematic dialysis access graft spectral Doppler characteristics.
- Use essential diagnostic elements to structure a report.
- Improve diagnosis/treatment accuracy by building confidence to use procedures, methodologies, and diagnostic criteria.
TOPICS:
- Hemodynamics and Doppler Basics
- Transducers, Imaging Modes, Artifacts
- Normal carotid anatomy, waveforms, and scan protocol
- Abnormal Carotid Waveform: Features and Diagnosis
- Abnormalities in the Vertebrobasilar System and TCD Data Integration: Carotid Reporting and Interpretation
- Abdominal and aortic endograft
- Indirect Physiologic Exams and Arterial Duplex/Color Flow Imaging: Arterial Grafts, Intraoperative Duplex/Color Flow Imaging
- Arterial Assessment: Upper Extremities
- Abdominal Visceral Duplex: Renal, Mesenteric, Hepatic Peripheral Venous: DVT Detection Protocols Venous Insufficiency and Physiologic Testing
- Venous Imaging: Upper Extremities
- QA, Safety, Bioeffects
- Mock exams interactive
- 135 Interactive Carotid, Peripheral Arterial, Venous, Abdominal Aorta, and Visceral Case Studies (log provided after completion)
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