15 years ago I had a heart attack and was out of work for 2 months. I had my heart attack the morning after my annual physical during which I received a full treadmill style EKG and was declared to have a clean bill of health. 18 hours after my physical I was on my back in the emergency room.
I don’t believe that the doctors can tell anything from their testing.
studies show anywhere from 10-15% false negative rate for stress test.
depends on ability to run on treadmill up to vmax.
15 years ago I had a heart attack and was out of work for 2 months. I had my heart attack the morning after my annual physical during which I received a full treadmill style EKG and was declared to have a clean bill of health. 18 hours after my physical I was on my back in the emergency room.
I don’t believe that the doctors can tell anything from their testing.
Oh they can tell a lot. They are not perfect, but they can put your particular case results into a batch of other case results and Ta Da, you become a statistic.
Did you know that a pulomary embolism can be virtually undetectable? Some of the very worst cases of PE involve patients who had all sorts of great test results, and the only initial clinical signs were that the patient "did not feel right."