Month May 2015

Since I started performing exercise tests I’ve used both treadmills and bicycle ergometers. There are a several reasons that make ergometers somewhat better for exercise testing than treadmil…

Reports are how patient test results are distributed. Paper versions have become less common because reports are now stored electronically in hospital information systems. Even if the way in which …

I was reviewing PFT reports today and noticed that a patient appeared to have had the wrong gender entered in their demographic information. Specifically, the patient had an unambiguously masculine…

Recently a patient was referred to my lab for a CPET by his oncologist. The patient had been complaining of excessive shortness of breath particularly when climbing only a few stairs. The patient r…