Stress day:
Please read all instructions carefully.
- No food 3-4 Hours prior to testing. If your test is scheduled in the afternoon. eat a light meal 3-4 hours priors to testing. Please do not fast all day for this test. You may drink water.
- Diabetic patients follow normal regimen, but eat light. You may have juice before the test if needed.
- No smoking or exercise 8 hours before testing.
- No caffeine 12 hours prior to testing (this includes colas, chocolate, tea, or coffee).
- You will have an IV started for this procedure.
- Wear loose comfortable clothing (short sleeved shirt/t-shirt and pants/shorts). No dresses
- Wear tennis shoes or comfortable walking shoes.
- If you use inhalers on a regular basis, please bring them with you.
- On the day of the stress test, please bring a list with dosages or bottles of your medications(including any supplements or over the counter), your inhaler(s), insurance card(s), driver's license.
- Take all of your regularly scheduled medications as prescribed except the medicines listed below. Do not take these medicines (listed below) the night before or the morning of your test.
- Amiodarone
- Betapace (Sotalol)
- Bystolic
- Calan
- Cardizem
- Cartrol (Cartelol)
- Coreg (Carvedilol)
- Corgard (Nadolol)
- Corzide (Nadolol)
- Covera
- Dilacor
- Inderal (Propanolol)
- Inderide
- Innopran XL
- Isoptin
- Multaq
- Levatol (Penbutolol)
- Lopressor (Metoprolol)
- Normodyne (Labetalol)
- Rythmol
- Sectral (Acebutolol)
- Tarka
- Tenormin (Atenolol)
- Tenoretic
- Tiazac
- Timolide (Timolol)
- Toprol XL
- Trandate (Labetalol)
- Verapamil
- Verelan
- Visken (Pindolol)
- Zebeta (Bisoprolol)
- Ziac
Resting day:
Please read all instructions carefully.
- No caffeine 4 hours prior to scheduled time of arrival (this includes chocolate, colas, coffee, and tea).
- No food 3-4 hours prior to scheduled time of arrival.
- Diabetic patients follow normal regimen, but eat light.
- No exercise 4 hours prior to scheduled time of arrival.
- Medications: Take all routine medications as usual.
- As a part of this test, you will need to eat a snack after the isotoped injection. The snack break is approximately 45-60 minutes. This snack should be a minimum of 10 grams of fat (you can bring food from home). Do not eat this food until instructed by the nuclear tech. The final images will take approximately 20-30 min.
Cancellation of either the stress day or the resting of the myoview stress test requires twenty-four(24) hours notice, otherwise there will be a charge to the patient for the cost of the isotope.