17th Cambridge / UCLA Course on Clinical Exercise Testing and Interpretation - A Practical Approach

17th Cambridge / UCLA Course on Clinical Exercise Testing and Interpretation - A Practical Approach is organized by Cambridge Postgraduate Medical Centre (PGMC) and would be held during Jul 05 - 06, 2018 at The Moller Centre, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.

The target audience for this medical event is Doctors, Scientists, Physiologists and Technicians interested in exercise testing. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 Credits.

The aim of the course is to improve the participants’ knowledge of the value of exercise testing and interpreting the results in normals, and subjects with suspected pathology.

This acclaimed course is delivered through a mixed approach of plenary sessions, hands-on practical's, small group poster sessions and workshops.

The course will be of interest to all involved in exercise testing as well as specialist registrars in training and consultants in anesthetics, respiratory medicine, cardiology, sport and exercise medicine and rehabilitation medicine.

Day 1 – Clinical Exercise Testing in the Normal subject
• Incremental and constant work protocols
• Interpretation of performance variables (VO2 max, lactate threshold and VO2 kinetics)
• The training response
• A practical session demonstrating the measurement of VO2 max with data interpretation Lactate testing
• Practical small group work on interpretation of data
• Exercise prescription.

Day 2 – Clinical Exercise Testing for Clinical conditions
• Purpose and indication for clinical exercise testing
• Protocols for clinical exercise testing
• Response patterns normal / abnormal
• Technical problems
• Practical demonstration
• Small group involvement in the interpretation of cases (eg COPD, asthma, cardiomyopathy)
• Development of written report
• Self assessment

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.