Exercise Testing in Congestive Heart Failure Patients

摘要: Exercise testing of heart failure patients has not been the standard practice among clinical cardiologists until recent years when it shown to be safe and provide health care team with useful information for patient management assess prognosis. Early exercise studies used Modified Naughton protocol in 2 minute stages measurements gas exchange (1). Thus, became rule rather than exception choosing protocols. In fact, most randomized trials, which have studied effects a particular drug on function patients, also chosen this protocol. testing, however, can performed using variety published The often depends experience physician norms any specific facility.