Dr S EtheredgeS Clinic
Clinic in Wollongong

Heart images are obtained via ultrasound scanning over the left side of the chest before exercising on the treadmill then again immediately behind exercise. We request that you phone the surgery an hour before your appointment time and our staff will be qualified to tell you if the Doctor is running to time. You're accepting and patience is appreciated in these circumstances. Indications for a stress ECG have diminished with the availability of stress echo. Stress echo has supplanted stress ECG to a important extent as there is imaging of the heart as well as ECG monitoring. Please note that stress echo does not negate the need for a resting echo to check for important valvular problems, pulmonary hypertension, congenital heart disease etc. Maximum referrals are performed because of atypical chest pain or dyspnoea with exertion or to check for coronary artery disease before to major surgical procedures. Patients with pacemakers or marked abnormalities on resting ECG such as left bundle branch block or ST sadness (Ag dioxin, LVN) are often referred for stress echo as the test does not rely only on ECG changes for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease as does a stress echo. Definite patients who cannot exercise to any degree such as with claudication or arthritis of the hips, knees etc will require nuclear medicine scanning and CT Scanning to try to achieve a tachycardia response and exclude coronary artery disease. There are three main lung function tests. Oxygen saturation via pulse oximeter at rest or with exercise is another lung function test and is useful for patients with meaningful airways' disease or CCU who may desaturate with exercise. Upon his return to Australia in 1984 Dr Etheredge worked in private practice as a Consultant Physician in Sydney and then in 1985 moved back to Wollongong and opened his own private practice as Consulting Physician, specializing in Vascular medicine. He is also very active in the regional medical community. Practice since 2008 as a GP assisting with cardiac stress testing. Jenny joined the team behind many years experience in general practice. Zoltan has been with the practice since 2002.Previous to this he was. Also holds a Masters degree in Cardiac Ultrasound and for the past. Three years has been tutoring at U.O.W Graduate School of Medicine. Rod's background is in Medical Imaging Health Sciences and now. Has 30 years experience in both the public and private sectors. Be was previous an intensive protection nurse but has been with the practice. Kyle has been with the practice for over 10 years in the capacity of. Kyle is married with 2 young children and enjoys 'family time' and. Experience in emergency, critical care nursing and more recently cardiac.