Clinical exercise testing (European Respiratory Monograph)

Clinical exercise testing (European Respiratory Monograph)

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Clinical exercise testing

European Respiratory Monograph

European Respiratory Society (ERS)

Editors S. Ward, P. Palange

Publishedjuly 2007

234 pages pdf file

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing has played an increasing role in clinical practice in order to assess functional capability of patients, suffering from a variety of disorders. This book provides clinically oriented state-of-the-art reviews, based on current scientific knowledge, and offers a wellbalanced

perspective of clinical exercise testing and an overview of the full diagnostic potential of exercise testing in order to establish this testing procedure in the clinical decision-making process.

Contents

Introduction

Determinants of the physiological systems responses to muscular exercise in healthy subjects

Discriminating features of responses in cardiopulmonary exercise testing

Patterns of cardiopulmonary response to exercise in lung diseases

Patterns of response diagnostic for cardiac disease

Equipment, measurements and quality control in clinical exercise testing

Laboratory tests

Walking for the assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Reference values in adults

Exercise testing in children with respiratory diseases

Exercise testing in the prognostic evaluation of patients with lung and heart diseases

Role of exercise testing in defining the response to interventions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients

Indications for exercise testing: a critical perspective

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