Exercise Stress Testing for Primary Care and Sports Medicine

Part I. Performing the Exercise Test

1. Exercise Physiology for Graded Exercise Testing: A Primer for the Primary Care Clinician
Francis G. O’Connor, Matthew T. Kunar, Patricia A. Deuster

2. Performance of the Exercise Test
George D. Harris, Russell D. White

3. Exercise Testing Special Protocols
George D. Harris

4. Testing Special Populations
Bryan C. Hughes, Russell D. White

Part II. Interpretation and Application of the Exercise Test

5. Interpreting the Exercise Test
Corey H. Evans, Myrvin H. Ellestad

6. Common Abnormal Responses Seen with Exercise Testing and How to Manage Them
Corey H. Evans, Victor F. Froelicher

7. Nuclear Imaging with Exercise Testing
Patricia Nguyen

8. Stress Echocardiography
Patricia Nguyen

9. Stratifying Symptomatic Patients Using the Exercise Test and Other Tools
Russell D. White, Nora Goldschlager

10. Exercise Testing as Applied to the Preoperative Patient
H. Jack Pyhel

11. Exercise Testing and Other Tools for Risk Stratification in~Asymptomatic Patients
Corey H. Evans, Victor F. Froelicher

12. Promoting Therapeutic Lifestyle Change and the Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
George D. Harris

13. Exercise Testing After Bypass or Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Grant Fowler, Michael Altman

14. Legal Aspects of Graded Exercise Testing
David L. Herbert, William G. Herbert, Russell D. White, Victor F. Froelicher

Part III. Sports Medicine Applications of Exercise Testing

15. Measuring Physical Fitness
Steven C. Masley

16. Generating an Exercise Prescription from the Exercise Test
Kevin Edward Elder

17. The Role of Gas Analysis and Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Vibhuti N. Singh, Ajoy Kumar, Joseph S. Janicki

18. Testing Athletic Populations
David E. Price, Eric T. Warren, Russell D. White

19. Exercise Testing for the Symptomatic Athlete
Karl B. Fields

Part IV. Case Studies

20. Case Studies: Lessons Learned from~Interesting Cases
Corey H. Evans, H. Jack Pyhel, Russell D. White

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Primary Care Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine, Sports Medicine