Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 13th Edition by Kerry Cheever, Janice Hinkle

Exercise 2

Many of the patients in your practice as a nurse for a home care agency are olderadults and have CVD. A new patient of yours, a 68-year-old woman recovering from aleft hip replacement, complains of feeling more tired than usual and has intermittentepisodes of right arm numbness and neck pain.You immediately report thesesymptoms to the patient's primary provider, who orders a cardiac workup consistingof a number of laboratory and diagnostic tests to rule out CAD.What are the mostcommon laboratory and diagnostic tests that are used to diagnose CAD? How will youprepare your patient for these tests and procedures?