If you are concerned about your heart health, have heart and vein issues in your family, or simply want to take your preventative care more seriously, you’ve come to the right place. We offer treadmill, nuclear, and cardiac PET scan stress tests, as well as a host of other diagnostic testing and procedures. Your safety is our number one priority.Īt Vital Heart and Vein, your cardiovascular health is our passion and specialty. You will be monitored the entire time and we can stop the test at any time. The likelihood of heart attack and/or death as a result of a stress test is less than 0.04%. However, in certain patients with heart disease, there is a very small risk of heart attack with exercise or receiving medication to stress the heart.
Running on a treadmill for a stress test is not more dangerous than doing the same amount of running at home or in the park. What are the risks of a stress test?Ī stress test is very safe and we perform many stress tests per day. Your doctor may also recommend additional testing including a heart catheterization. Based on your test results, your doctor may recommend changes to improve your blood pressure, cholesterol, and other risk factors which increase your risk of having coronary artery disease and a heart attack. These results can tell your doctor about your risk of having coronary artery disease, your risk of heart attack in the next year, and your risk with surgeries in the near future. Nuclear stress tests have the extra benefit of telling how much blood flow those muscles are receiving. What does a stress test tell me and my doctor?Ī stress test tells you how well your heart muscles respond to stress. Again, this test typically takes less than 3 hours from start to finish. Nuclear stress tests are very safe with minimal levels of radiation, and help your doctor provide a significantly more accurate diagnosis. Just like with the exercise based nuclear stress test, we take pictures of the heart before and after the stress by giving a safe radioactive tracer and using a special camera. It is possible and common to feel warm or shortness of breath for a short amount of time with the medication although the sensation is brief, the drug is safe, and we have medicines to reverse the sensation. This medicine is given through an IV to increase blood flow to your heart. A medication is used to recreate the effects of exercise on the heart. This test typically takes less than 3 hours from start to finish.įor patients who cannot exercise, we perform a pharmacologic (medicine) nuclear stress test. By comparing the pictures of your heart before and after exercise, we can see how your heart reacts normally to stress. At peak exercise, you receive another injection and additional pictures of your heart are taken. After, we have you exercise on the treadmill as above. First, we take pictures of your heart with a safe radioactive tracer and a special camera. For some low risk patients, especially those who are able to exercise for long periods, this is the entire test.įor certain patients who are able to exercise, but for whom ECG monitoring is not enough, we perform an exercise based nuclear stress test. It starts as a gentle walk and every 3 minutes, the treadmill increases speed and incline.
Reference tool for cardiac stress test skin#
Sticky patches remain attached to your skin to monitor your heart rhythm during the test. There are multiple types of stress tests.įor exercise stress tests with electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring, you walk on a treadmill while we monitor your EKG. If you are unable to exercise, we can use medications to test your heart.
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