CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

BY: SHONTA GATHINGS

The use of

ultrasound to examine

and measure the

structures and

functioning of the

heart and to diagnose

abnormalities and

disease.

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

An

electrocardiographic

test of heart function

before, during, and

after a controlled

period of increasingly

strenuous exercise. 

STRESS TESTING

A technique for detecting

the movement of blood

flow. It allows an examiner

to hear characteristic

alterations in blood flow

caused by vessel

obstruction in various

parts of an extremity.

DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY