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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I see this is a specialist....he MUST know a resting EKG is about a useless waste of money....unless you luck out and she actually faints while they are doing it....I would insist on a Holter monitor...that attaches to the dog for however many days they want, and it provides a continous running trace of exactly what her heart is doing, 24*/day....you make notes at different times...like "9pm...started to cough......10pm....drinking water....10:05 passed out....." and then they look back and compare the times you have recorded in your notes that something weird had happened, to exactly what her heart was doing at that moment. That is how they can tell if it is her heart that is causing this fainting to happen.... |
Yep....the cost is a bit much but SO worth it. I don't know about SA, but here it is around $400.