Exercise Testing for Primary Care and Sports Medicine Physicians

This practical book is a guide to the exercise stress test performed to determine a patient’s risk of developing coronary heart disease.

Edited by Drs.

Corey H.

Evans and Russell D.

White, the text is ideal for primary care, family medicine and sports medicine physicians, sports physiologists and trainers.

Sections are devoted to performing the exercise stress test, test interpretation and application, and sports medicine applications.

Additionally, common abnormal responses and risk stratification of symptomatic and asymptomatic patients are detailed, and flow charts and algorithms bolster the decision-making process.

With its straightforward presentation of key material, this text is a welcome resource for those caring for athletes and patients at risk for heart disease.

Exercise Physiology for Graded Exercise Testing: A Primer for the Primary Care Clinician

Exercise Testing Special Protocols

Testing Special Populations

Interpreting the Exercise Test

Common Abnormal Responses Seen with Exercise Testing and How to Manage Them

Nuclear Imaging with Exercise Testing

Stress Echocardiography

Stratifying Symptomatic Patients Using the Exercise Test and Other Tools

Exercise Testing as Applied to the Preoperative Patient

Exercise Testing and Other Tools for Risk Stratification in~Asymptomatic Patients

Promoting Therapeutic Lifestyle Change and the Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease

Exercise Testing After Bypass or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Legal Aspects of Graded Exercise Testing

Measuring Physical Fitness

Generating an Exercise Prescription from the Exercise Test

The Role of Gas Analysis and Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Testing Athletic Populations

Exercise Testing for the Symptomatic Athlete

Case Studies: Lessons Learned from~Interesting Cases