Courses

Clinical exercise testing: advanced 2024

 

Exercise testing is fundamental for the accurate quantification of cardiorespiratory fitness and for identifying mechanisms underlying exercise intolerance and shortness of breath (dyspnoea). Several indices of exercise testing-related physiological response relate independently to major clinical outcomes such as survival and hospital admissions, thus allowing considerable improvement in prognostic stratification.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the physiological basis of exercise testing, to identify the indications and the protocols used in clinical and rehabilitation settings as well as the increased importance of exercise testing in the prognostic setting.

Chair(s): Pierantonio Laveneziana, Paolo Palange

Session type: Case-based session

J. Alberto Neder

Session content

William Stringer

Slides - Stringer - Case 1

Slides - Stringer - Case 2

Slides - Ward


Coffee break


Clinical cases: Unexplained dyspnoea

Pierantonio Laveneziana


Clinical cases: Pre-operative assessment

Paolo Onorati


Clinical cases: Dysfunctional breathing

Afroditi Boutou


Clinical cases: Combined COPD-heart failure

J. Alberto Neder

Slides



Clinical cases from participants


Closing remarks