10 Clinical Minutes: Cardiac Stress Tests

Stress tests are super common and are an important tool in both risk stratifying patients with suspected coronary artery disease and helping to guide the next best step in workup or treatment. But there are many components to stress tests, and they tend to mix & match. In this episode, we explain how to determine if your patient needs a stress test, what the options are for stressing the heart, the basics of how to interpret the results, and what to expect on the report.
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Time stamps:
00:00 Intro
00:23 Chest pain
01:05 Best next step
02:57 Stress test indications
04:04 Stress the heart
04:55 Look for ischemia
05:52 Interpreting results
09:18 Summary
Opening and closing song: "Clear Day" by Bensound.com