Main 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