Study Guide for Final Exam 2020

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• Can ischemic changes on an ECG during or after an ETT correlate to the effected artery orarteries? Ischemia that is confined to only the posterior and or lateral segments of the left ventricle ... is difficult to detect by ETT, but that does not mean that ETT cannot detect ischemia limited tothese functional areas of the heart. • What diagnostic test is used for CAD? P488 Exercise Tolerance Test- standard first-line approach to initial testing for CAD is the ETT, during which the patient (attached to a 12-lead electrocardiogram) is continuously monitoredduring graded exercise. The bicycle and treadmill are the two most often used. The primary goal of the ETT is to increase workload incrementally to induce ischemia or until apredetermined workload is reached. [Show More]

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