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Clinical exercise stress testing: Safety and performance guidelines ∗
Author(s) -
Zealand The Cardiac Society of Australia and New
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb94191.x
Subject(s) - medicine , stress testing (software) , claudication , coronary artery disease , physical therapy , cardiology , functional testing , physical medicine and rehabilitation , arterial disease , intensive care medicine , vascular disease , medline , computer science , programming language , political science , law
Clinical exercise testing has wide application in medicine, including the assessment of functional capacity, ventilatory function, gas exchange, muscle function, and endocrine and metabolic function, and as a test for claudication in peripheral vascular disease. The major use of exercise testing, however, is as a stress test in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease. This article outlines the minimum safety and performance guidelines for exercise stress testing with electrocardiography, although many of the safety guidelines are common to other types of exercise tests, particularly exercise stress scintigraphy and echocardiography. (MJA 1996; 164: 282–284)