Cardiopulmonary

🔊 The Cardiopulmonary department offers:

• Doppler Echo-cardiograms
• Cardiac Stress Testing
• Electroencephaogram

Electrocardiogram (ECG / EKG)

EKG is a noninvasive study that measures the electrical currents generated by the heart while it beats. It is recorded in waveforms and will show abnormality in rate or rhythm. This procedure can be performed at all ages from newborn to geriatrics.

Treadmill Stress Test

This study monitors and evaluates the heart’s response to walking on a treadmill.

Exercise Myoview Test & Lexiscan/Myoview Stress Test

This involves the use of medications in addition to treadmill. After the stress test images made will show if there are any areas in the heart that do not receive adequate blood flow.

Pulmonary Function Tests

We offer general respiratory care services to patients of all ages:

• Nebulized Medications are given in aerosol treatments to open the respiratory airways in the presence of Asthma and other pulmonary diseases such as: Pneumonia and Emphysema.
• Life – support Ventilators in Critical Care areas keep patient breathing until they are well enough to breath on their own.
• Pulmonary Function Test is used to diagnose the presence and severity of respiratory diseases