New cardiology test bike

DENIA’S Hospital San Carlos has acquired a new decubitus bicycle to perform stress Doppler echocardiography.

Dr Alfonso Valle, Head of the Cardiocare Unit, explained that “chest pain or fatigue on physical exertion, such as climbing stairs or walking up a slope, are common symptoms for which patients come to the cardiologist. The pain or fatigue is usually no longer present at the time of the consultation, so the challenge for the physician is to investigate what happened at the time the symptoms occurred.”

In order to find out how the heart behaves during exercise, the conditions must be reproduced in a monitored

HOSPITAL Clínica Benidorm took part in the ‘Mes de la Salud’ (‘Health Week’) in Alfaz del Pi on Wednesday April 19 by offering free bone density tests in the Hogar del Pensionista.

The test is used to determine bone mineral density environment. For this purpose, a stress or exercise stress test is usually indicated.

According to Dr Valle, “stress echocardiography is mainly performed on a bicycle, combining information from blood pressure and electrocardiogram.

“In addition, in this case,