PG4 - Respiratory physiology: exercise in clinical practice

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: S. Ward (Leeds, United Kingdom), P. Palange (Rome, Italy)
Aims: This is the third course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues on respiratory physiology. The aims of this third module in the series are:
• to describe the physiological changes occurring during exercise, and identify the measurement techniques;
• to review the clinical impact of exercise testing during lung disease;
• to identify the diagnostic input of exercise testing in respiratory patients with cardiac dysfunction;
• to review the strategy of follow-up regarding exercise capacity during the treatment of chronic lung diseases.

Physiological changes occurring during exercise S. Ward (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: protocol and measurements M. Riley (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Exercise testing in the evaluation of exercise intolerance in respiratory diseases C. G. Gallagher (Dublin, Ireland)
Exercise testing in the evaluation of interventions (surgery, drugs, oxygen during exercise, rehabilitation, etc.) P. Palange (Rome, Italy)