>> My name is Jeff Huffman.
Live here in Oxford.
I work at the [inaudible] Heart Clinic.
I do nuclear medicine.
Typical kind of day for me is go in, I got a few patients on a schedule.
We inject them with radioactive material, and then we do scans of the heart.
Kind of a resting scan, and then we'll do exercise, stress portion of their test,
and then wait a little while, and then we'll do another set of pictures after that.
Like, if you were coming in the first time, you would already have seen the doctor,
and basically we're doing it to rule out if you have a blockage in your heart.
[Inaudible] to see how well your heart's pumping.
So you would come in, you'd have to have nothing to eat or drink after midnight,
and then we would start the needle in your arm, and then I will inject you
with that small amount of radioactive material, and it tags to your heart
so where it just goes on into your heart.
And then we'll do the first x-ray twenty minutes after that, and then we usually have you sit
around and wait on the doctor to come in the office,
and then once he gets there, we actually do the stress part.
The stress part consists of either walking on the treadmill
or sometimes what we do what's called a pharmacological stress test.
That's where we inject you with a medicine, usually Lexascan, and it stresses your heart
by dilating all your blood vessels.
So that stresses your heart for people that are elderly,
and they can't actually do the treadmill.
And then we'll wait another hour after that, and then we take another set of pictures,
and the actual patient then is free to go, and that's when I process their pictures,
and then the doctor, he comes in, the cardiologist.
He reads all the pictures that night or the next day.