2D Echo & Colourflow Doppler?????

[tigercat]

I am to take this test but am really unsure how they do it and what it entails. Any info would be appreciated about this test. I also am having a 48-Hour Holter and was wondering if anyone had ever had that done. I leave in 2 weeks and hope that nothing comes up because I really don't want (and would cost a lot of money) to cancel our trip.
A little happiness though, the package from Disney came today with our reservation details, 2 luggage name tags and some brochures. I really can't wait.
tigercat

 

[nativetxn]

I had a 24 hour holter and there was nothing to it. You have the ekg leads on and wear a little machine that records your heart traces for 24 hours. You also have a little diary that you use to record your activity. Nothing to it.

I also had a 2DMmode echocardiogram. It's basically an ultrasound of your heart. It is simple, easy and painless.

I don't know about the "color flow doppler", though

 

[lsyorke]

Color flow doppler just shows the blood moving through the valves and chambers of the heart. Its usually part of the 2d echo. Easy test, no needles, no pain. A little jelly on your chest is all you have to deal with.

Good Luck

 

[tigercat]

Oh good that doesn't sound as bad as I thought. I have to go to admitting for this test, and that threw me off because I thought I'd just go to the ultrasound dept. The test is being done on a different floor of our hospital. Our hospital is just a small country place, so when I was told it wasn't being done in the dept. I thought it was suppose to be I got worried. I feel a lot better now.
tigercat