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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing: Protocols and the Normal Physiologic Responses

About This Course

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) is a valuable tool for evaluating exercise capacity and predicting outcome in patients with various conditions. This presentation will discuss various devices and protocols used for CPET as well as the normal ventilatory responses to exercise.

Successful completion of this course requires a score of 70% on the post-test.

Original Webcast Date July 25, 2017

**Please note that all programs require the participant to view the entire program prior to taking the final quiz and obtaining a course certificate.**

Seminar Objectives

Understand the selection of the protocol for exercise testing

Review the basic physiologic responses during exercise

Describe an interpretation scheme for a cardiopulmonary exercise test

Chapters

Speaker Information
  • Carl Mottram, RRT, RPFT, FAARC