PFT Study| 112 questions| with complete solutions

Where is the 6 minute walk test performed? correct answer: Hard flat surface What does the 6 minute walk test measure? correct answer: The distance walked in a period of 6 minutes and evaluates functional exercise capacity Patients choose their own ____ and they may/may not stop and rest during the test correct answer: Intensity May 6 MWT does not determine _____ or _______ correct answer: Peak Oxygen consumption Mechanisms of exercise limitations like the CPET _____ is similar to the 6 MWT but it uses an audio signal to direct the walking pace of the patient back and fort on a short course. correct answer: Shuttle test The pace increases every ____ until the patient cannot reach the turnaround point within the required time correct answer: 1 minute The shuttle test is more/less used because? correct answer: Less used Patients don't hear the audio prompts well enough The development of objective measures of functional exercise capacity started in the ___ and ___. correct answer: 1960s and 1970s ____ developed a 12 minute walk test to evaluate fitness in healthy people correct answer: KH Cooper Mugall and Hainswort found the distance covered in a 12-minute hospital corridor walking test in patients with ______ to be a useful measure of disability correct answer: COPD The 12 minute walk test is useful but it is ____ and ____ for the patient correct answer: time consuming and exhuasting The _____ walk test is most commonly used, easy to administer, better tolerated, and more reflective of activities of daily living than other walk tests correct answer: 6 minute walk test General list of indications for 6 MWT: correct answer: Assess functional status(single measurement) Measure the response of medical interventions Predict morality and morbidity Absolute contraindications for 6 MWT: correct answer: Myocardial infarction in the previous month Unstable coronary artery disease or angina in the previous month