Cardiac Lab care at Littleton Regional Healthcare provides the highest level of customer service.
We are patient-focused, attempting to help each patient through their cardiac tests in any way we can. We offer state-of-the-art equipment to treat more than 600 patients in our cardiac diagnostic lab each year.
Telephone: (603) 444-9531
Some of the most common cardiac lab procedures we offer include:
- Exercise Treadmill Test
- Exercise Myocardial Perfusion Stress Test (aka exercise Sestamibi)
- Dobutamine Sestamibi
- Lexiscan Sestamibi, which replaced the “Adenosine Sestamibi” protocol recently
- Exercise Stress Echocardiogram (utilizing the Bicycle Ergometer Bed)
- Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram.
- Contrast ECHO perfusion scan
- Contrast bubble study for intracardiac shunt
- Stress ECHO testing
- Transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE )
- TEE-guided cardioversions for atrial fibrillation
- Cardioversion for atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter
- Pacemaker programming and interrogation.
Our Echo Lab is one of only a handful of Echo Labs in NH that has received accreditation with the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.
Our Holter monitoring (24-hour or 48-hour) and 30-day event monitors are available to outpatients so that your provider can determine if there are any cardiac rhythm abnormalities during a 24-hour period.
We feel it is our privilege to work very closely with the 2 cardiologists affiliated with LRH. This includes scheduling patients and coordinating appointments with the cardiologists’ offices and contacting our patients before their tests so we can go over instructions, obtain basic information, and answer questions they may have. We are proud that our cardiac physicians are certified as Fellows of the American College of Cardiology.
LRH has contracted with First Call Medical to receive recorded ECG data via telephone, from each patient being treated in the Cardiac Lab. The patients’ ECG data is conveniently able to be transferred 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.
- Exercise Treadmill Test
- Exercise Myocardial Perfusion Stress Test (aka exercise Sestamibi)
- Dobutamine Sestamibi
- Lexiscan Sestamibi, which replaced the “Adenosine Sestamibi” protocol
- Exercise Stress Echocardiogram (utilizing the Bicycle Ergometer Bed)
- Dobutamine Stress Echocardiogram
- Coronary CTA or Cardiac Cat Scan.
Exercise Treadmill Test – Stress test
Some heart problems are easier to diagnose when your heart is working harder and beating faster than when it’s at rest. During stress testing, you exercise (or are given medicine if you are unable to exercise) to make your heart work harder and beat faster while heart tests are performed.
Coronary CTA (cardiac CAT scans)
The CTA test uses a special high-tech x-ray scanner aided by dye injected into a I.V. This entirely noninvasive procedure, which takes less than one minute, produces computerized pictures of the heart arteries.
Holter Monitor Procedure
This device records the heart’s electrical activity continuously over a 24-hour or 48-hour period.
Cardio Smart Videos
These videos explain some of the various tests conducted at LRH by our Cardiac Lab staff and your physician. Although different facilities, including LRH, have different routines and procedures, based on your physician’s preferences these videos will allow you to view a typical patient experience.
