Test and Procedure Information
Tests and Procedures
The following brochures can help you prepare for specific diagnostic tests. They also highlight what you can expect during the test and any needed follow-up care. Links are to PDF documents.
A
- Angiogram/Arteriogram
- Arterial Blood Gas (ABG)
- Arterial Vascular Ultrasound Exams
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Closure
B
- Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty
- Bland Embolization
- Bone Mineral Density
- Bone Scan
- Bone Scan: Triple Phase
- Breath Test Nuclear Medicine
- Bronchodilator Response
C
- Car Seat Challenge Test
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiac Catheterization Lab Procedures: After Hospital Care
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Stress Test ALine Insertion After-Hospital Care
- Cardiopulmonary Exercise Stress Testing
- Cardioversion
- Carotid Vertebral Duplex Scan
- Chemoembolization
- Chemoembolization (2)
- Chemotherapy Medications
- Chronic Total Occlusion of the Coronary Arteries
- Cold Stimulation
- Colonoscopy
- Computerized Tomography (CT)
- Cryoablation
- Cystoscopy
D
E
- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
- Electromyography (EMG)
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Electroencephalogram - Ambulatory (EEG)
- Electrophysiology Study
- Evoked Potential Test (EP)
- Exercise Cardiac Perfusion Study: Nuclear Cardiology
G
- Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery
- Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery for AVM (Arteriovenous Malformation)
- Gated Blood Pool Study
H
I
- Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) Filter Retrieval with the Endovascular Laser Sheath
- Inferior Vena Cava Placement
- Inferior Vena Cava Retrieval
- IV Contrast Dye: Allergy Preparation
L
M
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Mammogram, After Your
- Metformin and Tests Requiring IV Iodine
- Metformin Use After a Cardiac Angiogram
- Methacholine Challenge (Aerosol)
- Moderate Sedation in Interventional Radiology
- Muscle Force Testing
N
O
P
- Paracentesis
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI)
- Percutaneous Vertebroplasty
- Pharmacologic Cardiac Perfusion Imaging: Nuclear Cardiology
- Portal Vein
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET/CT) Scan
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET/CT) Scan for the Brain
- Prostate Artery Embolization (PAE)
- Pseudoaneurysm Exam (Duplex Scan)
- Pulmonary Function Test (Full PFT)
- Pulse Oximetry
Q
R
- Radioembolization
- Radiofrequency Ablation (Cardiac)
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RF) for Atrial Fibrillation
- Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA)
- Red Cell Mass and Plasma Volume Test
- Regular Treadmill Exercise Stress Test
- Renal Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Scan
- Renal Scan
- Renal Scan with Lasix
- Right Heart Cardiac Catheterization
S
- Spirometry (Flow Volume Loop)
- Sputum Induction (Aerosol)
- Stent: After Procedure
- Stress Echocardiogram
- Stress Echocardiogram Pharmacologic
T
- Thoracentesis
- Thyroid Scan I-123
- Thyroid Scan Technetium
- Transcatheter Mitral Valve Procedure After Hospital Care
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Procedure: After Hospital Care
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
- Triple Phase Bone Scan