User's Manual

Chapter 7 - Exercise Testing - 73
It’s very important acquire information on the patient’s clinical past before performing
the test. Keep attention in particular way to the use of drugs, tobacco, to the physical
fitness and symptoms produced with the exercise.
Patient assent
The patient is informed that he will be submitted to a maximum effort, which could be
stopped at any moment, and of the risks of the test execution.
Ending the test
Test may end when the maximum value of the oxygen consumption has been reached
and the patient’s response established.