Open AccessPeak Oxygen Consumption Measured during the Stair-Climbing Test in Lung Resection Candidates
Author(s) -
Alessandro Brunelli,
Francesco Xiumè,
Majed Refai,
Michele Salati,
Luca Di Nunzio,
Cecilia Pompili,
Armando Sabbatini
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
respiration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.264
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1423-0356
pISSN - 0025-7931
DOI - 10.1159/000279331
Subject(s) - medicine , zoology , biology
The stair-climbing test is commonly used in the preoperative evaluation of lung resection candidates, but it is difficult to standardize and provides little physiologic information on the performance.