chemical stress test
Can anyone tell me where I can find a cardiologist to accomodate a 500 lb patient for a chemical stress test in NJ/PA? I'm having trouble finding a suitbale doctor/office/hospital. Surely I can't be the first one to have had this problem. Can anyone point me in the right direction? It seems that most will only go up to 350 pounds or so (because of the tables they use, apparently. I'm in New Jersey, but will go anywhere in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania area that can acommodate me. Can anyone help a brother out?
Between all of the hospitals in South Jersey and Philly there must be some place where you can have this done. I suggest you contact some of your local hospitals other than Underwood and see if any of their doctors do chemical stress tests for someone who weighs 500 lbs. Cooper, Virtua, Lourdes, and Kennedy are openly competing for patients in NJ. Similarly, you have the same thing going on in Philly with Jefferson, U of Penn, Temple, and Lankenau are competing. They're all doing bariatric surgeries so you know they have gurneys and tables that can support super morbidly obese people. Your primary physician may be able to help you with this also.
I had my original RNY at St Peter's in New Brunswick and they even had me stay in a special bariatric bed--I would stand at the narrow end of the bed and the entire bed would come up behind me--I could lie down without approaching it from the side. More importantly, shortly after my surgery, I'd get out of bed by the bed lifting me to a vertical position. Both times I was in hospitals, the beds had built-in scales. I had my 2nd RNY at U of Penn (a revision due to staple line disruption).
I had my original RNY at St Peter's in New Brunswick and they even had me stay in a special bariatric bed--I would stand at the narrow end of the bed and the entire bed would come up behind me--I could lie down without approaching it from the side. More importantly, shortly after my surgery, I'd get out of bed by the bed lifting me to a vertical position. Both times I was in hospitals, the beds had built-in scales. I had my 2nd RNY at U of Penn (a revision due to staple line disruption).
I had a couple of these tests done prior to WLS since I was too large for the treadmill. They just pumped into my veins a bunch of adrenalin, or something like it, and monitored my heart rate as I sat on a table.
I had the tests done at a cardio clinic affiliated with the University of Colorado and was referred there by my weight loss surgeon. It's a pretty standard test for super-morbidly obese people from what I understand.
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