Exercise Tolerance Testing

Aimed at cardiac professionals to develop their Exercise Tolerance Testing (ETT) skills. A knowledge of ECG reading is needed to gain the optimal benefit from this course.

"Excellent course for revision and revising the topic."

"i thoroughly enjoyed the day, the tutor pitched it at the right level and paced it very well."

COURSE CONTENT

• Review of the 12 lead ECG
• Indications and contraindications for exercise testing
• Cardiovascular responses to exercise
• Review of exercise protocols
• Pre-exercise 12-Lead ECG case studies
• Complications of stress ECG
• The 'normal' ECG response
• Abnormal ECG response
• Disturbance of conduction and rhythm
• Blood pressure measurements
• Pacemaker evaluation
• Post Myocardial Infarction
• Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA ) and Coronary Artery
• Bypass Graph (CABG) assessment testing
• False Positive & False Negative tests

AIMS / OUTCOMES

• Understand the implications and relevance of exercise testing and coronary artery disease
• Interpret the clinical findings of a positive stress ECG