Editorial
Field tests in pulmonary disease
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Proper evaluation of potential patients is the keystone to a successful pulmonary rehabilitation programme.1 The so-called functional approach which relates to impairment (the physiological deficit), disability (total effect of impairment on the patient's life), and handicap (the social disadvantages) as part of the comprehensive programme of care is one approach. It is useful not only for monitoring the patient's functional status, but it enables the rehabilitation team to set and to achieve goals to improve the quality of the patient's life.
Although an exercise test may help to uncover other coexisting
diseases, it is generally necessary to assess the patient's exercise
tolerance and to evaluate possible blood gas changes which cannot be
predicted from baseline lung function tests.2 The exercise
test is also used to establish a safe and appropriate prescription for
subsequent training. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing has been found to
be useful in the evaluation of exercise tolerance in
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