ACUSON Cypress™ Operator’s Manual 8-17
Conducting a Stress Echo Protocol Exam
9.
If the physician would like to review the loops prior to the start of the exami-
nation or exercise stage, press the
VIEW function key for a full-screen display
of each loop. Press
VIEW a second time for the quad-screen display. (Press
VIEW to toggle between full-screen and quad-screen.) To exit View mode,
press
2D. Use the Soft Window knobs to navigate through the pages and
loops.
10. To complete the stress echo exam for each protocol, see the steps below.
2-Stage: see Steps A1–A4.
3-Stage: see Steps B1–B4.
Pharmacological: see Steps C1–C3.
2-Stage:
A1. Prepare the timer so that it will start as soon as the patient stops exercis-
ing. Press the
TOOLS function key and click the [TIMER] button. Select
Start but do not press <
ENTER> until the exercise phase has ended. (If
you forget to start the timer, the system automatically starts it as soon as
you press
•SAVE.)
A2. Press <ENTER> to start the timer. The timer is displayed in the upper right
portion of the screen.
Press
•SAVE to start capturing the Impost loops. (Loops are captured for
two minutes.) The camera icon remains in the upper right corner of the
screen to indicate that Impost loops are being captured. To start the Save
function, press the
•SAVE key. When all four views have been captured,
press
•SAVE again to stop the Save function.
Note: You can change the
2D GAIN and adjust the TGCs while the system
is saving loops. Pressing a mode key or the
VIEW key will stop the Save
function and you will have to start it again manually.
To stop the timer, press the
TOOLS key, click the [TIMER] button, and then
select Stop; to clear the timer, select Clear.
A3. Loops captured during the Impost stage must be assigned a view label.
Press the
VIEW function key.
Turn the
PLAY LOOP Soft Window knob clockwise until the first Impost
view is displayed. Continue turning the knob until the best loop is playing.
(
AP4 is the first view for the Impost stage, but loops can be labeled in any
order.) Turn the
PROTOCOL knob to display AP4. A "1" appears next to
the
AP4 view counter. Continue turning the PLAY LOOP knob to select and
label the remaining three views.
The
ROI box can be repositioned while in full-screen display. Use the
Trackball to move the
ROI.
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