Clinical competence in exercise testing

Exercise testing in clinical medicine.

Exercise-induced changes in the electrocardiogram have been used to identify coronary artery disease for almost a century. Over the past decade, however, clinicians have increasingly focused on more expensive diagnostic tools believing them to offer improved diagnostic accuracy. In fact, by incorporating historical data, the simple exercise test can in most cases outperform the newer tests. The...

Clinical exercise stress testing.

Submaximal exercise testing: clinical application and interpretation.

Compared with maximal exercise testing, submaximal exercise testing appears to have greater applicability to physical therapists in their role as clinical exercise specialists. This review contrasts maximal and submaximal exercise testing. Two major categories of submaximal tests (ie, predictive and performance tests) and their relative merits are described. Predictive tests are submaximal test...

Clinical exercise testing: basic principles and practice

Faculty and delegates of an @ERStalk course on clinical exercise testing describe their experiences http://ow.ly/dPwB30dxr8v.

Clinical Asthma and exercise ; a testing issue ?

There is an increasing prevalence of allergy and asthma in children in the European population, with most recent estimates in young people showing an atopy prevalence of 20% and an asthma prevalence of 8% (1). This increasing asthma prevalence has resulted in an increasing number of asthmatics entering the workforce, producing new challenges to industries which have traditionally excluded asthm...