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Exercise Stress Tests

Sometimes it is helpful to see how your heart performs during exercise. In that case, a stress test is done...

  1. BulletYou come dressed like you do for gym class

  2. BulletYou wear EKG stickers and wires

  3. BulletYou run on a treadmill while the doctor watches the EKG to make sure you are safe

Tilt Table Test

In rare circumstances, further testing is used to determine why you are passing out. If needed, a tilt table test may be done...

Exercise and Tilt Table Tests

  1. BulletYou come to the hospital in the morning

  2. BulletA very nice nurse will place an IV in your arm so we can use special medicine to make your heart beat fast

  3. BulletYou wear EKG stickers and wires

  4. BulletYou then lay on a special table that goes up so you are “standing”

  5. BulletThe doctor watches to see if you get dizzy

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