Hey what's going on happy Saturday by the time this video is going to be published it's going to be Saturday the 28th

How's everybody doing today we're gonna be answering a reader's question once again

We're gonna be talking about stress testing.

Now, this reader was a little bit confused as to the indications.

She's read a few resources.

She used a couple of review courses,

but she's still not quite sure when it is that we need to be doing stress testing.

So this talk here is going to be focused on that exact thing.

So let's get into her question and this is going to be from Shavali now sorry if I

but but shevali says hi Andrew I'm trying to confirm my understanding of

stress testing for angina coronary artery disease and each time I look at page 21 of pants prep pearls I get confused again

I'm using Rosh review for practice questions and I wish it would have focused a chunk of questions

on diagnostics for this reason to be representative of the practice tests I've

taken in the past. I know in your lectures you reference stress testing in general but don't go into detail so do you mind offering clarification as per your understanding of the stress testing algorithm?

So we're going to get into her question right now. Now, very, very

basic, right? Let's get into kind of the overview of stress testing. Why do we do stress testing initially?

Well, we're gonna do stress testing for two reasons.

One, risk stratification.

And the other is to diagnose coronary artery disease, coronary heart disease, ischemic heart disease, however it is you want to define the term.

It's to diagnose in those cases in which it's not quite clear if this person if this person

does suffer from a schemy or not and or we know the patient has coronary heart

disease we want to risk stratify them. So two indications, right?

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