When you're ill, your doctor can often determine why and treat you following a simple office examination. But when what makes you ill is more of a "mystery," or when you've injured yourself, you may need diagnostic testing to determine what's wrong - and what's not wrong - before your doctor can recommend treatment.
Accurate diagnosis is essential for the successful treatment of any disease or illness. Using the latest in medical technology, Northeast Regional Medical Center's skilled technologists and physician specialists look beyond your outer shell and into the structures of your body to determine how the body is functioning and why it may not be functioning correctly. Your physicians must order diagnostic tests and procedures and the results are returned to your physician for his/her follow up with you.
Plus, Northeast offers a Cardiovascular Screening Clinic on the first and third Wednesdays of each month to help you determine your risk factors for cardiovascular disease. For more information on this clinic and the screenings offered, call (660) 785-1279.
Some of the Diagnostic Services provided at Northeast include:
- Spiral CT dimensional scanning (often called a "CAT scan")
- Echocardiograms
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- MRA
- Nuclear Medicine
- Mammography
- Ultrasound
- Dexascan (to detect bone loss or osteoporosis)
- EKG (electrocardiogram)
- Stress testing Angiography
- Diagnostic biopsies
- Peripheral vascular testing
- Pulmonary function testing
- Electroencephalograms (EEG)
- Sleep laboratory
- Clinical laboratory services
- Mobile ancillary lab services
- Diagnostic surgical procedures
- Biopsies
- Endoscopy
- Laparoscopy
- Urology
- Biliary drains
- Nephrostomy drains
- Uriniokinase injections