camillia Rossi is 22 years old and works at a waffle house during the day and go

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camillia Rossi is 22 years old and works at a waffle house during the day and goes to business school at night. she comes to the office because she has been experiancing some heart problems. over the past month, she has had three episodes of tachycardia, palpitations, trouble breathing and profuse sweating. she is really scared that she has heart disease. her grandfather just died from a heart attack, and she is afraid she will die next. the physician orders an ECG, but Camillia is reluctant to have the procedure. she is embarrassed about having to disrobe from the waist up, and she is worried that she will get shocked by all the wires coming out of the machine. she says that does not have health insurance, and she does not know how she would pay for such a fancy test. she wants to know whether there is a less expensive way to find out what is wrong with her. what would you do ?

Explanation / Answer

We can go for cardiac stress test or exercise tolerance test. This test is also called as exercise electrocadiogram.

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