Vascular Technology Review: A Q&A Review for the ARDMS Vascular Technology Exam

Test yourself before the ARDMS tests you! Vascular Technology Review illuminates the facts and principles on which you will be tested, hones your test-taking skills, and reveals your strengths and weaknesses by exam topic. Based on the exam outline published by ARDMS, this brand new edition contains more than 570 registry-like questions together with instructive illustrations, answers, clear explanations, and quick references for further study. A new Hall of Images and more than 50 image-based cases prepare you to tackle the images on the exam.

Why are our mock exams so popular and effective? Because they contain the same kinds of thought-provoking questions you will find on the real exam! Approved for 12 hours of continuing medical education (CME) credit by the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS).

Don Ridgway is a practicing vascular technologist and an instructor in the vascular technology program at Grossmont College in California, where he was responsible for seeing that program become the first vascular technology curriculum to receive American Medical Association accreditation. Don brings teaching skills from several different disciplines and areas of experience: He has taught writing and fencing (swords, not chain-link) at San Diego University, and for ten years he played and taught bluegrass banjo, mandolin, guitar, and Dobro. He still gets to pick occasionally when he is not on call, lecturing, or grading quizzes.
Cindy Owen is the author of Ultrasound Physics Review, ScoreCards for Vascular Technology, and Abdominal Sonography Review. A former ARDMS and ICAVL board member, Cindy is Global Manager of Luminary & Research Programs for GE Healthcare. Cindy lives with her family in Memphis and enjoys riding her horse Gus.
Dr. Strandness pioneered the development of duplex ultrasonography, served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Vascular Surgery at the University of Washington, lectured throughout the world, and authored dozens of major books and hundreds of original articles before his recent death.
Barton Bean, founding president of the Society of Vascular Technology and seminal figure in the history of the field, is editor emeritus of the highly acclaimed ARDMS registry mock examination, Vascular Technology Review. Bart lectures and consults peers and students of the vascular field throughout the country.