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BME 495: Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology

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Prerequisites

BME 304 or instructor approval

Description

This course will integrate fundamental scientific knowledge and engineering technological advances involved in cardiovascular medicine with an emphasis on the most challenging unmet clinical needs, such as heart failure, hypertension, ischemic disease, myocardial infarction, metabolic disease, atrial fibrillation, and sudden cardiac death. The course will introduce gene and cell therapies, computational cardiology, design of implantable and wearable devices, ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.