Cardiopulmonary exercise tests
What it tests
- Integrated test of the heart, lungs, circulation, blood and muscle under load
- Answers the question resting tests cannot: which system is the limiting one?
- Treadmill or cycle ergometer, incremental ramp to symptom-limited maximum, with breath-by-breath analysis of VO2, VCO2 and minute ventilation, plus continuous ECG, SpO2, BP +/- arterial line
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