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Exercise Stress Test
Please arrive 15 minutes early for your exam
This allows time for check-in, registration, and any necessary preparation. Arriving early helps ensure your appointment begins on time and supports a smooth experience for all patients. Arriving late increases your chances of us cancelling or rescheduling your exam for another day.
- Important: No caffeine for 24 hours prior to each appointment (ie. coffee, decaffeinated beverages, chocolate, pop, tea, protein powders, vitamin water, etc.).
- Nothing to eat or drink (no water) for 4 hours before the appointment.
- If you are diabetic, nothing to eat or drink 2 hours before your appointment. Please refrain from taking morning insulin if possible and make sure to bring your insulin with you.
- *Patients are encouraged to have a small snack before their fasting period begins.*
- Please wear a short sleeved shirt and clean running shoes. If you do not have a short sleeved shirt, a gown will be provided.
- Continue to take your medications as normal unless otherwise directed by your doctor.
- Please bring all prescription medications with you.
- Bring your requisition (unless your physician already submitted it on your behalf), Alberta Health Care card (or out of town province health care card), and photo identification with you to your exam!
- We are a scent-free environment. Please refrain from from using perfumes or heavily scented products when you or your care giver enter our clinics. Many of our staff are sensitive to perfumes and scented products. Using perfumes or heavily scented products may disrupt the completion of your exam.
**Asthmatic patients: Please bring all asthma medications and “puffers” with you to your test and notify the technologist if you are asthmatic.
Did you know, patients who forget their requisition will likely have to defer their exam?