Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS) — Information & Free Practice

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Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS)

Provider: Pearson Professional Centers
Format: Computer-based
Exam questions: Total questions: 170; Scored questions: 150; Unscored questions: 20; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
Time limit: Three hours
Passing score: 650 scaled score
Exam fee: $365 USD

Examination outline

Providing Patient Care (3%)
- Triage Incoming Orders
- Review Indications and Appropriateness of Exam
- Review Patient History
- Perform Pre-Procedural Activities
Acquiring Cardiac Images (35%)
- Acquire subcostal images
- Acquire left parasternal images
- Acquire Apical Images
- Acquire Suprasternal Images
- Acquire Right Parasternal Images
- Optimize Images
- Apply Ultrasound Physics
Performing Disease Specific Examinations (49%)
- Adapt Patient Examination
- Identify Cardiac Lesions
- Acquire Post-Surgical/Interventional Images (e.g. congenital heart disease repair/palliation, post-cath intervention)
Acquiring Additional Echocardiographic Images (10%)
- Assist with TEE
- Perform Stress Echo
- Perform Ultrasound Enhanced Agent Echo
- Perform Agitated Saline Echo
- Perform 3D Echo
- Acquire Strain Images
- Assist with Structural Heart Procedures (e.g. cath lab, BAS, devices, valves)
Processing and Communicating Preliminary Reports (3%)
- Perform calculations and post-processing analysis
- Communicate critical results
- Perform post examination communication (e.g., summary of findings)

Examination sources

This examination may be required or accepted as an alternative, depending on the license and application pathway.