title: Assessing exercise tolerance: a review.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide guidelines for monitoring and assessing exercise tolerance. Monitoring and interpreting pulse rate, blood pressure, respiration, skin characteristics, fatigue, pain, coordination, and electrocardiography are discussed. The basis for applying these principles to graded-exercise-tolerance testing is also discussed.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D005082:Physical Exertion; D010809:Physical Fitness; D011674:Pulse; D012880:Skin Pigmentation