Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing by Myers, Jonathan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780873226363.

This first-of-its-kind resource offers a practical guide to using gas exchange techniques in clinical and research settings. Author Jonathan Myers helps you understand exercise testing technology and its applications. Youll learn the physiology behind exercise testing, ventilatory gas exchange methods and applications, what instrumentation and calculations to use for measuring gas exchange responses, what information can be obtained from gas exchange techniques, how to interpret gas exchange data, how to apply this information to different cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders, normal values for exercise capacity and reference equations, and how to apply more specialized applications of invasive hemodynamic measurements.