Cardiac Clearence?!

What should I expect? I go tomorrow..

mine did an ekg, listen took old history and saw that i had just had a stress echo cardio test with dye last march so he didnt order a new one , as i have had heart concerns prior years

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I had an EKG done with my primary care that was normal but she still sent me to a cardiologist for cardiac clearance. He looked at the normal EKG then did an echocardiogram. It was normal too so he said I got an a+ and he would send an approval letter to both the surgeon and the primary care. In an echo they lay you on your side (left side for me) and a technician squirts jelly on a roller ball thing hooked to a machine and they record the heart functions. They both see the heart working and I also heard it beating. Sounded like a pregnancy ultrasound with the whisking and whooshing of the baby's heart only it was my heart. No pain. It took about 20 minutes. They wipe the goop off and you are free to go. The cardiologist said with a normal EKG to start with he assumed the primary care just wanted to cover herself. If I croaked on the table they would blame him and not her. He was laughing. Said he has to do it all the time for primary care docs. Good luck. I think it is a pretty standard thing. I think the next step would maybe be a stress test but I avoided that.

I felt like the cardiologist I visited was overly thorough but better safe than sorry. I had an echocardiogram, then they set the iv up and had me do the stress test on the treadmill & then inserted something in the i.v and had me lay in a machine for like 10 minutes to take pics (i believe) of my heart. Was the first time I had ever been to the heart dic.

They did an EKG and required a letter from my cardiologist as well as the CD and reports from my most recent echo and cardiac MRI w/contrast.

I had recently had an Eckocardiogram so the cardiologist took the report from that. He had an EKG done in his office, it showed slight bradycardia and, since I'm basically sedentary, he ordered a stress test. Luckily they were able to do it that day. It showed a slight abnormality indicative of blockage so he ordered a CT angiogram which was done the following week. This showed no sign of CAD so at that time he sent a letter of clearance to my surgeon. All in all it was painless but kind of frustrating.

Randy

SamathaJo, my heart doctor was also extra cautious...because I have high blood pressure and am an ex smoker.  Did all the easy things...EKG...then did a nuclear stress test. That is like setting you up with the iv, taking the pics of your heart before exercise then the treadmill.  Then after that, pictures of your heart again.....The whole thing takes about an hour by the time you get done, but the treadmill itself was like 6 or 8 minutes.  Not bad.






















 

I have had three heart attacks so my cardiologist required an EKG and a chemical stress test.

I had the nuclear Stress test!! Not a favorite of mine!!! But I had high blood pressure and they wanted to be sure I would be fine during surgery so I did it.