TY - BOOK AU - Ihab Ahmed Mohamed AU - Gamal Hamed , AU - Mervat M . Khalaf , AU - Sherif Sabri , TI - Use of atropine in patients with chronotropic incompetence and poor exercise capacity during treadmill stress testing / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ihab Ahmed Mohamed , KW - Atropine KW - Chronotropic incompetence KW - ECG N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Objective : Exercise stress test (EST) is one of the main diagnostic and prognostic tests for ischemic heart disease . However its usefulness depends on achieving target heart rate and then chronotropic incompetence and poor exercise capacity limits its utility . We evaluated the usefulness and accuracy of atropine administration during the EST to decrease the number of tests with inconclusive results in these patients UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -