CPET Made Simple: A Practical Guide to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

CPET Made Simple: A Practical Guide to Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
by: Tom Lawson(Author),Helen Anderson(Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 13 Mar. 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 178 pages
ISBN-10: 1009412884
ISBN-13: 9781009412889
Book Description
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is an increasingly important investigation for anaesthesiologists, surgeons, cardiologists, pulmonologists, physiologists, and peri-operative physicians. For trainees, non-experts, or simply those seeking an introduction to interpreting CPETs, this essential book builds layers of knowledge that can be applied in case studies and in future practice. It will help you learn and understand: • What is CPET and what are the principles of exercise physiology • How to conduct a CPET • How to interpret a CPET nine-panel plot • How to assess exercise capacity and limitation. This practical and clinical guide is both easy to read and easy to understand and features diagrams illustrating key principles. It outlines the basic physiological principles and takes a step-by-step approach to conducting and interpreting a cardiopulmonary exercise test, together with case studies to consolidate learning. Chapters cover the indications and contraindications of CPET, test safety and complications, spirometry, writing a CPET report, and shared decision-making.

About the Author

Book Description A practical guide explaining how to conduct and interpret cardiopulmonary exercise tests in a simple and easy to understand way. About the Author Tom Lawson is Consultant Anaesthetist at Swansea Bay University Health Board in Swansea.Helen Anderson is Consultant Anaesthetist at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust in Plymouth and Honorary Secretary of iPOETTS (International Prehabilitation and Perioperative Exercise Testing Society).