Abstract

Introducing the improved "Gold Standard" for every professional who wants to make the best possible use of exercise testing and prescription in his/her practice, the American College of Sports Medicine has assembled a team of experts representing physiology, fitness, cardiology, nursing, and physical therapy. This fifth edition of ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription features: - more quantitative data-threshold values, clinical laboratory cutoffs, nomograms, and normative fitness data, - greater detail on "special populations" such as children, pregnant women, and the elderly, - more on testing and prescription for pulmonary patients, - new appendices on ECG interpretation schemata and expanded treatment of environmental considerations, - revised knowledge, skills, and abilities underlying each ACSM certification. The topics of this edition are as follows: Section I.: Health appraisal, risk assessment, and safety of exercise (Chapter 1: Benefits and risks associated with exercise; Chapter 2: Health screening and risk stratification). Section II.: Exercise testing (Chapter 3: Pre-test evaluation; Chapter 4: Physical fitness testing; Chapter 5: Clinical exercise testing; Chapter 6: Interpretation of test data). Section III.: Exercise prescription (Chapter 7: General principles of exercise prescription; Chapter 8: Exercise prescription for cardiac patients; Chapter 9: Exercise prescription for pulmonary patients; Chapter 10: Other clinical conditions influencing exercise prescription - hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, obesity; Chapter 11: Exercise testing and prescription for children, the elderly, and pregnancy). Klappentext und Inhalt