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Cardiac |
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Echocardiogram / Echocardiogram with Doppler and color flow
PREPARATION: None |
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Ask your physician what medications you should take the day of the study. |
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Allow 1 hour. |
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Echocardiogram with Doppler and Saline injection
PREPARATION: None |
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Ask your physician what medications you should take the day of the study. |
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Allow 1 to 1 ½ hours. |
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Stress Echocardiography / Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography
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Fasting for at least 4 hours prior to the test. |
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Ask your physician what medications you should take the day of the study. |
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Off beta blockers, calcium channel blockers or any negative chronotopic medications for at least 48 hours prior to the test. |
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Allow 1 ½ to 2 hours. |
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Bring comfortable clothing to walk on the treadmill (not for Dobutamine Stress Echo). |
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Abdomen |
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Liver / Pancreas / Spleen / Renal / Gallbladder / Aorta / Kidneys / Complete survey.
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Fasting from midnight. |
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Genital / Urinary (Quantitative Residual Bladder Volume). |
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Testicular
PREPARATION: None |
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Renal
PREPARATION |
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Fasting from midnight. |
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Bladder
PREPARATION |
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Drink a liter of fluids. |
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Thyroid Ultrasound (thyroid nodule, thyromegaly) |
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PREPARATION: None |
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Allow ½ hour at any time of the day. |
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Vascular |
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Carotids / Arterial duplex upper / lower extremities / Venous duplex upper / lower extremities |
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PREPARATION: None. |
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Arterial duplex lower extremities with exercise. |
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NO PREPARATION. |
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Bring comfortable clothing to walk the treadmill. |
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