What is a dobutamine echocardiography?
This test is an alternative procedure for patients with coronary artery disease who can not exercise on a treadmill. A medication called Dobutamine is used to duplicate the effects that exercise has on the heart muscle and coronary blood flow. An echocardiogram, which uses sound waves to obtain moving pictures of the heart, is obtained at rest and after Dobutamine administration. How is this test performed? You will be asked to lie on your back as an intravenous (IV) is started in your arm. Electrodes will be painlessly placed on your skin. A specially trained technician will obtain pictures of your heart using a sound-producing probe on different parts of your chest. After the resting pictures are obtained, a small and continuous amount of Dobutamine will be administered. Gradually, as hough you will be lying on the bed throughout the test. If it is safe, or necessary, other medicine will be given to ithe dose of Dobutamine is increased, your heart will beat more quickly and strongly
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