Tests and Procedures

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
• Barium Swallow Study Modified
• 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
• CT Low-Dose During Pregnancy
• Cystoscopy

D

• Diffusing Capacity (DLCO)
• Duplex Scan: Abdominal Iliac Mesenteric Renal Vascular Ultrasound Exams

E

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Electromyography (EMG)
• Electroencephalogram (EEG)
• Electroencephalogram - Ambulatory (EEG)
• Electrophysiology Study
• Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography ERCP Illustration Only
• Endoscopic Ultrasound EUS Illustration Only
• 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

• Hepatobiliary Scan

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

• Lower Gastrointestinal (GI) Exam
• Lung Scan Ventilation and Perfusion
• Lung Volume Test

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 for Endoscopy
• Moderate Sedation in Interventional Radiology
• Muscle Force Testing

N

• Newborn Pulse Oximetry Testing

O

• Oximetry: Exercise (Oxygen Dosing)

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 Vascular Ultrasound Exam

• Pulmonary Function Test (Full PFT)
• Pulse Oximetry

Q

• Quick Scan Vascular Screening

R

• Radiation Exposure
• 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 Doppler (TCD)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
• Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE)
• Triple Phase Bone Scan

U

• Upright Tilt Table Test
• Uterine Fibroid Embolization

V

• Venous Duplex Scan
• Video EEG Monitoring

W

• Wada Testing