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Melody Glines |
603-444-9531 |
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Littleton Regional Hospital provides excellent cardiac care. It is the intent of the cardiac lab to provide the highest level of customer service possible. We are patient focused, attempting to help our patients through their tests in any way we can.
Our Cardiac Lab offers state-of-the-art equipment providing the best care for all of our patients. We treat more than 600 patients in our cardiac diagnostic lab each year.
In the cardiac lab, we do:
- Cardiac stress tests
- Exercise tolerance tests via treadmill, or chemically induced tests, often combined with scans of the patient's cardiac circulation.
- "Dobutamine Stress Echo", or DSE, which is a chemical stress test of the heart with concurrent echocardiography.
- "Tilt table" test, which is ordered by physicians when attempting to diagnose syncope.
We do several EKG's for area physicians and are responsible for application and scanning of 24-hour Holter monitoring for patients at Littleton Regional Hospital. We offer these tests to assist your physician in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease. At LRH patients do not have to wait because most tests can be performed within 24 to 48 hours of physician referral.
Our Echo Lab is one of only a handful of Echo Labs in NH that has received accreditation with the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.
Our 24-hour Holter monitoring is available to outpatients so that your physician can determine if there are any cardiac rhythm abnormalities during a 24-hour period.
Our outpatient Electrocardiogram (EKG) takes pictures of the electrical activity of the heart.
We feel it is our privilege to work very closely with the 2 cardiologists affiliated with LRH. This includes scheduling of patients and coordinating appointments with the cardiologists' offices and contacting our patients before their tests so we can go over instructions, obtain basic information, and answer questions they may have. We are proud that our three cardiac physicians are certified as Fellows of American College of Cardiology.
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