“Child has a stress test. What should I expect?”
My child is going to have an exercise stress test, and I'm not sure what exactly it's going to measure. I understand that it's supposed to measure how well her heart works and adjusts. What does a stress test for children involve?
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As I only treat adults above 18 years old, my answer will be accordingly. Stress test is done by walking on the treadmill while monitoring the heart rate and increasing the level of the exercise every three minutes to a harder level. Some centers in addition to going the stress test they perform imaging with an echo cardiogram as well to check on the heart response, and heart muscle function.
