Cardiac Diagnostic

What is Cardiac Diagnostic

With high stress and pressure being a part of stylish man’s life, coronary ailments are on the growth today. Modern and sedentary lifestyle has made man prone to different heart and other lifestyle ailments. It has therefore become required that one undergo regular preventive health checkups as a precautionary measure.

Today there are a number of Cardiac Diagnostic Services available:

64 Slice Heart Scan

64 Slice Heart Scan, is a 10 second non-surgical method that confess the blocks and deposits in the arteries of the heart. It is a preventive treatment that supports in the detection of cardiac disorder and can support prevent a heart attack. It benefit in detecting the presence of calcium build up, non-calcified plaque deposits, which may cause a heart attack. The method is also patient friendly as shorter breath holding in the procedure reduces patient discomfort while scanning.

Holter Monitor Studies and Event Monitors

A Holter heart monitor test

A Holter heart monitor is a small EKG machine (around the size of a cassette tape player). At the time of the test 5 EKG patches and wires are connect to your chest. Your heart beat is observed (while you are doing daily activities) for a day or two while you will be wearing a monitor in a sling across the shoulder under your clothes.

An event heart monitor

It is another type of compact monitor. It regularly records the action of your heart when a button is pushed, it saves or records the readings of the recent three minutes. It is worn for two days or two weeks, depending on when there is an existence of cardiac symptom. These recordings are transmitted to the phone, in Holter heart test that is done for about 20 minutes.

320 slice CT Scanner

320 Slice CT Scanner is existence the image of the entire heart in a single rotation while it present volumetric temporal resolution thus offering clearer image quality. It shows the whole organ anatomy along with the difference in it over the time resulting in better and quick diagnosis. Moreover, it can operate a detailed neurological examination too of the whole brain perfusion in a single study, applicable in identifying the level of heart disease

Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)

TEE is used in determining whether a patient who has the complication of an abnormal heart rhythm is at a high risk for a stroke or not. This method also tells that whether there are any blood clots in the heart.

Stress Echocardiography

The method of Stress Echocardiography generate use of exercise or medication for making the heart work harder than when it is resting, helping in obtaining complicated pictures of the heart and its functioning. It review into the overall heart functioning, the existence of heart diseases, and the effectiveness of the treatment being followed.

Electrophysiology (EP) Study

EP Study is a specialized procedure that is undertaken by a qualified cardiac specialist, who is called the Electrophysiologist. During this procedure, one or more thin, flexible wires, which are known as catheters, are put into a blood vessel, later navigate into the heart. Every catheter has got two or extra electrodes for measuring the electrical signals to heart while they are cross from one chamber to the other.