Diabetes And Hypertension Center

The office is staffed to deal with noncritical acute emergencies such as bronchitis, sinusitis, kidney infection, bladder infection, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, dehydration, renal failure, abdominal pain and many more. Rather than having to wait for 14 hours to be seen by a physician and assessed, we can treat a number of these urgent problems within hours.

An echocardiogram is a painless procedure that uses sound waves and a computer to look at your beating heart. A device called a transducer sends high-frequency sound waves into your chest. The sound waves bounce (echo) off your heart. A computer uses the echoes to create a moving picture of the heart.

A stress test can be used to test for heart disease. Stress tests are tests performed by a doctor and/or trained technician to determine the amount of stress that your heart can manage before developing either an abnormal rhythm or evidence of ischemia (not enough blood flow to the heart muscle). The most commonly performed stress test is the exercise stress test.

Ultrasound imaging, also called ultrasound scanning or sonography, involves exposing part of the body to high-frequency sound waves to produce pictures of the inside of the body. Ultrasound exams do not use ionizing radiation (as used in x-rays). Because ultrasound images are captured in real-time, they can show the structure and movement of the body's internal organs, as well as blood flowing through blood vessels.

Airway refers to the tube that allows air to pass in and out of the body. This tube starts at the voice box (larynx) and branches into many tiny little tubes in the lungs. Each tube ends as a tiny "bubble" called an alveolus, where air (oxygen) is transferred into the blood and carbon dioxide is released.