Computerized Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Winter, U. J., K. Wasserman, N. Treese, and H. W. Hopp {Editors}

ISBN 10: 0387914048 / ISBN 13: 9780387914046

Published by Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991

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"Cardiopulmonary exercise testing {CPX} has been proposed to examine the integrity of the heart, lungs, and circulation during exercise. This approach is based on the classical view that pulmonary gas exchange, gas transport by the circulatory system, and the cellular gas exchange are functioning together to maintain the 'internal milieu' both at rest and during exercise. The analysis of the respiratory gas exchange may provide some insight in possible disorders of this intefrated unit. Modern computerized technology has facilitated the analysis of expired gases on breath to breath basis. Therefore interest in this unique tool is growing to readily identify mechanisms of exercise intolerance.The different papers of this symposium express quite controversial views on how to ideally exercise, however, they demonstrate the increasing importance of exercise as part of the quality of life of many of our patients. We therefore hope that these proceedings will stimulate the interest in cardiopulmonary exercise testing and speed its further application." This book hasn 192 pages and is illustrated throughout. Overall, a VERY GOOD copy of this VERY SCARCE title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Computerized Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387914048
• ISBN 13: 9780387914046
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: Not Given
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The measurement of cardio-circulatory and gas-exchange parameters during phy­ sical exercise - the so-called ergo spirometry or cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) - as a basis of pathophysiological and clinical research has a long tradition in Cologne. Knipping and his coworkers, especially Hollmann, performed basic re­ search work in healthy subjects. In the area of sports medicine, bicycle or treadmill exercise testing with parallel serial lactate determinations has gained increasing im­ portance for the assessment of cardiac functional capacity. Also, in other medical disciplines, ergospirometry lost its importance. K. Wasserman in Los Angeles is to be credited for having further improved the method to its present standard, a computerized, on-line measuring and practicable cardiopulmonary exercise testing procedure. The prerequisites were technical innovations, such as continuously­ measuring gas analyzers and personal computers. Thereby, the knowledge about physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical circumstances of cardiocirculatory and re­ spiratory regulation during exercise were significantly extended. The working groups of W. Hollmann, Cologne, and K. Wasserman, Los Angeles, determined normal values for the gas-exchange parameters and derived values for healthy normals in large populations. Wasserman and coworkers were able to introduce a differential diagnostic concept for patients suffering from various cardiovascular and cardio­ pulmonary diseases. Many cardiologists, working, for example in myocardial failure or with rate-adaptive pacemakers, belong to those who recommended the modem, computerized ergo spirometry. Furthermore, this method is controversely discussed· by colleagues working in sports medicine and pulmonary function.