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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is concerned solely with detecting problems related to high blood pressure – a hugely significant health risk which is currently on the rise.
Blood pressure monitoring involves wearing a cuff linked to a small device which measures your blood pressure every half hour (or hourly during the night) over a 24-hour period, while you go about your day.
Many studies have confirmed this method is superior to clinic blood pressure testing in predicting future cardiovascular events and targeting organ damage. This means your doctor can provide a much more accurate diagnosis and effective management plan.
Holter Monitoring
A Holter monitor is a small, lightweight heart rate monitor that measures the rhythm as well as the rate of your heart for a continuous period of 24 or 48 hours.
The monitor has three leads which are attached to your chest via ECG electrodes. The Holter monitor’s primary purpose is to correlate symptoms such as heart palpitations, rapid breathing or dizziness with the ECG (see below) and rule in or out any abnormal rhythm activity. The patient is required to document all symptoms in a diary.
24 Hour Holter Monitor
Specialist Reviewed: $350
Physiologist Reviewed: $250
Exercise Tolerance Testing
An exercise tolerance test (or ETT) requires a patient to exercise on a treadmill in the clinic while being monitored by a 12-lead ECG (electrocardiogram) and blood pressure machine and is often used if we don’t pick anything up on a Holter heart monitor.
The ETT replicates how your body behaves under stress and can pick up issues such as angina and demonstrate how adequate your heart function is as well as your exercise tolerance. Chest pain and shortness of breath while exercising are common indicators for this test.
Specialist Reviewed: $350
Physiologist Reviewed: $250
Cardiac Event Monitoring
Similar to a Holter monitor, but worn for a full week, cardiac event monitors (or cardiac event recorders) are used to correlate a patient’s heart rate and rhythm to their ECG (electrocardiogram) over a period of 7 days.
A cardiac event recorder is preferred when symptoms are less frequent and allows a patient to activate an “Event” button to snapshot a rhythm when they experience any abnormal symptoms. It is often used for younger patients.
7 Day Holter
Specialist Reviewed: $450
Physiologist Reviewed: $350
ECG and Oximetry
An electrocardiogram (ECG) measures the electrical activity of your heart via 12 leads attached to your chest and body. It takes only a few minutes and records your heart’s rhythm, checking for abnormal activity which may indicate damage to your heart or blood vessels caused by high blood pressure. An ECG can detect problems long before they become significant issues. In fact, everyone over the age of 45 should have an ECG.
Oximetry measures your oxygen levels while you sleep, or for selected hours of the day.
Resting ECG
Specialist Reviewed: $70
Physiologist Reviewed: $50
Oximetry
Specialist Reviewed: $195
Physiologist Reviewed: $100
Sleep Studies
Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety. Snoring is one of the most under-acknowledged symptoms in the management of health. Although often seen as a benign problem, it can cause disharmony in relationships as well as significant disruption to sleep.
Ongoing sleep deficiency can raise your risk for some chronic health problems such as high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes and many breathing disorders – sleep apnoea is a major cause of cardiac and respiratory issues. We offer an advanced at home sleep study to assess the severity of snoring/sleep apnoea and impact of cardiac and respiratory health.
Level 3 Sleep Study
Specialist Reviewed: $350
Physiologist Reviewed: $195
Level 4a Sleep Study (Oximetry)
Specialist Reviewed: $195
Physiologist Reviewed: $100
Spirometry
Spirometry is the most common lung function test. It assesses how well your lungs work by measuring how much and how quickly you can move air out of your lungs. You breathe into a mouthpiece attached to a machine called a spirometer.
Spirometry is used to diagnose asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other conditions that affect breathing. Spirometry may also be used periodically to monitor your lung condition and check whether a treatment for a chronic lung condition is helping you breathe better.
Specialist Reviewed: $105
Physiologist Reviewed: $70
Before and after Exercise
Specialist Reviewed: $120
Physiologist Reviewed: $80
Before and after Bronchodilator
Specialist Reviewed: $120
Physiologist Reviewed: $100
*Cardiologist reviewed – tests will be reviewed by a Medical Specialist.
**Physiologist reviewed – tests will be reviewed by a Cardiac Physiologist.
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