While aerobic exercise testing is well recognized in clinical practice, there lacks a full appreciation for the value of the information it provides. Current vital signs are all obtained at rest and ...

You may be familiar with the four vital signs monitored by clinicians: body temperature, pulse rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure. When you visit your health care provider for your yearly ...

THERE has long been a need for a simple objective criterion to indicate when use of a respirator should be started during the acute illness of poliomyelitis and to guide the weaning of patients with ...

In the reports on vital capacity in the literature, instructions to the patients were not described in detail. In our experience variations in the results of serial determinations were traced in many ...

Using chronotropic response as a reference, study authors from Japan investigated the potential influence of exercise-induced heart rate on cardiac output reserve and exercise capacity among a cohort ...

The four traditional vital signs: resting heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and body temperature, serve as the cornerstone of a physical examination. Other assessments such as pain have ...