An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease

AE Holland, MA Spruit, T Troosters… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Field walking tests are commonly employed to evaluate exercise capacity, assess prognosis
and evaluate treatment response in chronic respiratory diseases. In recent years, there has …

An official systematic review of the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society: measurement properties of field walking tests in chronic respiratory …

SJ Singh, MA Puhan, V Andrianopoulos… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
This systematic review examined the measurement properties of the 6-min walk test
(6MWT), incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) and endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) in …

An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: key concepts and advances in pulmonary rehabilitation

MA Spruit, SJ Singh, C Garvey… - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the
management of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American …

Use of exercise testing in the evaluation of interventional efficacy: an official ERS statement

L Puente-Maestu, P Palange… - European …, 2016 - Eur Respiratory Soc
This document reviews 1) the measurement properties of commonly used exercise tests in
patients with chronic respiratory diseases and 2) published studies on their utilty and/or …

[HTML][HTML] ERS statement on standardisation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in chronic lung diseases

T Radtke, S Crook, G Kaltsakas… - European …, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The objective of this document was to standardise published cardiopulmonary exercise
testing (CPET) protocols for improved interpretation in clinical settings and multicentre …

Measurement properties of the incremental shuttle walk test: a systematic review

VF Parreira, T Janaudis-Ferreira, RA Evans, S Mathur… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
Background The incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) was developed> 20 years ago and has
been used to assess peak exercise capacity in a variety of chronic diseases. The aim of this …

Bedside assessment of quadriceps muscle by ultrasound after admission for acute exacerbations of chronic respiratory disease

NJ Greening, TC Harvey-Dunstan… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Hospitalization represents a major event for the patient with chronic respiratory
disease. There is a high risk of readmission, which over the longer term may be related more …

Neuromuscular electrostimulation for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

K Hill, V Cavalheri, S Mathur, M Roig… - Cochrane Database …, 2018 - cochranelibrary.com
Background In people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the use of
neuromuscular electrostimulation (NMES) either alone, or together with conventional …

Exercise training for people following lung resection for non-small cell lung cancer–a Cochrane systematic review

V Cavalheri, F Tahirah, M Nonoyama, S Jenkins… - Cancer treatment …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objectives To determine the effects of exercise training on exercise capacity, health-related
quality of life (HRQoL), lung function (forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1)) and …

[PDF][PDF] Effect of postsurgical rehabilitation programmes in patients operated for lung cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

MS Sommer, MEB Staerkind… - Journal of …, 2018 - researchgate.net
Objective: To review the evidence concerning the ef-fects of postoperative exercise
interventions on exercise capacity and health-related quality of life following resection for …