title: Program for cardiac patients: stress testing and training.
abstract: Dynamic exercise stress testing had become a widely accepted technique in the diagnosis of cardiac patients. The results of standardized exercise testing may be used to evaluate a patient's functional capacity and to derive an exercise prescription to assist him in improving his state of cardiovascular fitness. Because the physical therapist has special training and skill in exercise-related techniques, a stress testing laboratory and an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program may be appropriately established in a hospital's physical therapy department. Results are presented of a diagnostic exercise testing and an exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation program organized and supervised by physical therapists in a 300-bed private hospital.
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary; D006801:Humans; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities