Full Description
This book makes sense of complex topics by distilling them to basic concepts. It provides normal physiology integrated with indications for and evaluation of disease states. With a fresh clinical approach, it helps answer reoccurring questions.
Contents
Preface
Authors
1. Introduction
2. Orientation to the cardiopulmonary exercise test
3. Exercising muscle during a progressive work test
4. Cardiovascular system during a progressive work test
5. Respiratory system during a progressive work test
6. Planning and conducting the exercise test
7. Interpreting the CPET
8. Exercise testing patients with cardiovascular disease
9. Exercise testing patients with pulmonary hypertension
10. Exercise testing patients with airflow obstruction
11. Exercise testing patients with restrictive lung abnormalities
12. Exercise testing patients with metabolic myopathies
13. Differential diagnosis for loss of exercise tolerance
14. Gender differences in exercise
15. Exercise testing the elderly
16. Exercise testing the obese
17. Exercise testing elite aerobic athletes
18. Exercise training: The role of CPET
19. Cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation
20. Workplace exercise
21. Exercise at altitude
22. Exercise in heat and cold
Index
