Key result
Perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing service evaluations lack published clinical outcome data.
Why the study?
CPET services have rapidly expanded within the NHS with wide variations in practice, patient populations, and surgical specialty use, but summaries of service evaluations are not widely available.
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Service evaluation highlights practice patterns and referral variability in cardiopulmonary exercise testing, indicating an urgent need to optimize perioperative care pathways.
Background: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a powerful tool to provide an objective functional measure of a patient’s cardiorespiratory reserve. This can provide value in perioperative risk stratification, shared decision-making, and prehabilitation and highlight the need for high-dependency unit (HDU) care for effective resource allocation after major surgery. This service expanded within the NHS rapidly in the last 10 yr, and there are wide variations in practice, presenting patient population and use of service by surgical specialities in different centres; summaries of service evaluations are not widely available.
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Kugathaasan et al. (2026) studied Patients undergoing major surgery. Perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) was evaluated. Perioperative cardiopulmonary exercise testing service evaluations lack widely available summaries, with no clinical outcomes or quantitative results reported in this abstract's background.
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