摘要 |
A method for performing echocardiography for use with patient's unable to perform on a treadmill and in which no medications for increasing heart rate are used. Compression cuffs are placed on each of a patient's four extremities and compression is applied rotatingly to subsets of three out of the four cuffs. EKG is monitored before, during, and after application of the sequential decompression, thereby providing an echocardiograph of the patient's heart. |