Key result
CPX testing evaluates functional capacity and predicts perioperative complications across cardiac and noncardiac surgeries.
Why the study?
CPX testing has become an important preoperative tool to evaluate functional capacity and predict outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac and noncardiac surgery, requiring understanding of its uses and interpretation.
Population
Patients undergoing cardiac and noncardiac surgery
Design
Review
Authors
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CPX may refine preoperative risk assessment in surgical patients; leaves open need for RCTs confirming outcome benefit.
This review highlights the utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing as a noninvasive preoperative assessment tool to evaluate functional capacity and predict perioperative complications.
Ridgway et al. (2010) conducted a review in Patients undergoing cardiac and noncardiac surgery. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing was evaluated. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing evaluates functional capacity and predicts perioperative complications in patients undergoing cardiac and noncardiac surgery.
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