As planned for you, I was simply sent
home with the prescription and started taking the drug with no
monitoring. Also like you, I discovered from reading that the usual procedure in the US (I live in Canada) is to load this drug in a hospital setting with full monitoring 24/7 for 3 days. I asked my cardiologist about this when I next saw him and he said that the risk factors are well understood and I exhibit none of them so the monitoring was not required.