Open AccessDoes Cardiac Exercise Stress Testing Still Exist?
Author(s) -
Abuosa Ahmed,
AlRahimi Jamilah,
Almouaalamy Nabil
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of clinical cases and reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0435
DOI - 10.46619/joccr.2018.1-1024
Subject(s) - stress testing (software) , risk stratification , medicine , treadmill , stress test , physical therapy , chronotropic , test (biology) , intensive care medicine , computer science , heart rate , paleontology , finance , blood pressure , economics , biology , programming language
Exercise Treadmill Testing to identify CAD is now a widely available and relatively low-cost examination that has been used for more than 60 years. The use of the ETT has expanded to include testing for functional capacity, chronotropic incompetence, assess the effects of therapy and also useful for risk stratification of patients with known CAD. The test sensitivity ranges from 61% to 73%, as reported by various analysts, and Specificity ranges from 59% to 81%, depending on the study or article referenced. Due to the various criteria set for the exercise stress test interpretation and reporting, we have outlined the criteria needed to support high quality exercise stress testing practice throughout Health facilities.