The Cardiovascular Technology program prepares students for a career in the healthcare field with special emphasis for work in cardiovascular catheterization labs and echocardiography labs. Cardiovascular Technology is a health profession specifically concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiac and peripheral vascular disease. The technologist assists and performs examinations at the request or direction of a physician. The technologist is proficient in the use of analytical equipment and sundry apparatus to create an easily definable foundation of data from which a correct anatomic and physiologic diagnosis may be established.