- 08:30 – 09:15
- Registration (Continental Breakfast)
PGSS Thomson House
McGill University
3650 McTavish, Montréal
- 09:15 – 09:30
- Welcome and Course Overview – Franco Carli
- 09:30 – 10:00
- Introduction to CPET – Denny Levett
OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will be introduced to general concepts of cardiopulmonary exercise testing for patients at high risk.
- 10:00 – 10:45
- The Physiology of Exercise Performance and Limitation – Sabah Husain
OBJECTIVES:
- The lecture will deal with the notions of physiology related to exercise training and the integrated response of the pulmonary, cardiovascular and metabolic systems
- 10:45 – 11:15
- Coffee Break
- 11:15 – 11:45
- The AT Physiology and Identification – Enrico Minnella
OBJECTIVES:
- This lecture will focus on the basic physiologic knowledge of the anaerobic threshold, and its identification.
- 11:45 – 12:45
- TUTORIAL #1 – The 9-Panel Plot
- 12:45 – 13:45
- Lunch (provided)
- 13:45 – 15:45
- TUTORIAL #2 – Test Interpretation
Workshop – Healthy Volunteer Test
- 15:45 – 16:15
- Coffee Break
- 16:15 – 17:00
- Exercise and the Critically Ill Patient – Sheldon Magder
OBJECTIVES:
- At the end of the lecture the participant will become familiar with the concept of introducing exercise training in the intensive care in order to improve aerobic capacity and muscle function.
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