Advanced Tests to Diagnose Heart Disease

Aug 18, 2023

CHI St. Vincent. Imagine Better Health.

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0.29 -> Wear the Gown. Brought to you by CHI St. Vincent. Thanks. Wearing the gown is

6 -> about preventing a medical emergency. Most commonly that emergency is a heart

10.83 -> attack. With that in mind, we have a couple of confidence-building examples

14.759 -> of how technology can really be a lifesaver.

20.75 -> This is a test. For the next few seconds we will show you a test of the nuclear

26.24 -> medicine stress test. At CHISt. Vincent heart clinic, it is a two-part

31.369 -> test and it helps us determine if there's blockage in the coronary

35.09 -> arteries. Looking more like a video game than medical technology, this is an

40.25 -> invaluable tool for catching problems in advance especially for patients that

44.51 -> have already been through heart operations, such as...Bypasses. You know,

49.129 -> some last ten years. Some last 20 years, but eventually those will need to be

53.39 -> evaluated again. As nuclear medicine technologist Beth Russell is quick to

57.769 -> point out...Coronary artery disease progresses. Legs up. Put this arm up under

64.01 -> your head. And this is now one of the most often used machines in the heart

69.59 -> clinic. Non-invasive test that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and your

74.689 -> two ventricles so it's upside down. With our friend Zach helping us illustrate,

79.03 -> echo lab supervisor Jim Rose scours the landscape of the heart looking for

84.38 -> issues with tissues. Heart size, function.. we look at the valves make sure that

91.4 -> they're not leaking or stenotic. This often comes with a stress test. Four

96.409 -> pictures before the treadmill then the same four pictures after. We don't want to

101.6 -> see any wall motion abnormalities or changes in the wall motion. Every

107.27 -> keystroke gives Jim a different view. The techs takes a lot of pictures. Cardiac

113.12 -> health would be probably first and foremost.

115.88 -> Going nuclear or ultrasound, know this. Every test is geared for something

122.72 -> specific. A lot of people have underlying disease that they don't know that they

126.409 -> have. If we can find it and fix it before you have the heart attack that damages

131.15 -> the heart muscle, then you're so much better off. That's med tech speak for

135.89 -> Wear the Gown. Arkansas has the highest heart attack death rate in the country

141.59 -> according to the Centers for Disease Control. Sixty-four percent higher than the

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tumv9XGaXA