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Thank you for choosing the Heart Imaging Center for your exam. Our trained professional staff will insure that your experience is pleasant.
Please help us by noting the following:
Before your scan
- Nothing to eat or drink for 4 hours
- Take your usual medications with small sips of water
- No caffeine for 12 hours
The day of your scan
- Be sure to follow instructions for pre-scan medication and arrival time at our Center
- Wear loose, comfortable clothing without metal
- Plan to be with us for approximately one hour
What to expect
- Following registration, you will wait in a comfortable area
- EKG leads, oxygen monitoring probe and blood pressure cuff will be placed
- Baseline vital signs will be obtained
- Your vital signs will be regularly monitored
- An IV will be started in your arm. This is needed for the contrast that will be administered during the scan
- You will be taken into the scan room and settled comfortably on the table
- Oxygen may be administered for your comfort
- The technologist will instruct you and practice the necessary breath-holding patterns of 10 to 20 seconds
- Localizing images will be taken. The table moves during the scan
- The cardiac scan is done during a single short breath-hold while the contrast is injected
- A normal warm feeling is experienced during the contrast injection
- You will be in the scan room, on the table for about10-20 minutes
After the scan
- Your blood pressure and heart rate will be monitored Provided your vital signs are stable, you will be discharged
- Please do not plan any strenuous activities for the remainder of the day. You may return to work the following day
- Please continue to take your usual medications unless otherwise instructed by your doctor
- Please drink lots of liquids to help your kidneys flush out the contrast
Result
- Following your scan, data will be processed
- Our Cardiac Imaging Specialists will interpret the scan
- A detailed report will be sent to your doctor
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