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Cardio-Pulmonary Stress Testing Course

3rd Edition

December 3rd, 2024
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26h

THEORETICAL CLASSES

4h

PRACTICAL CLASSES

30h

DURATION

B-learning

FORMAT

Cardio-Pulmonary Stress Testing Course

Chronic diseases affect more than 5 million Portuguese, with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases accounting for approximately 2/5 of the annual mortality in Portugal. Morbidity frequently and inexorably undermines autonomy, social participation, and quality of life. These facts are sufficient condition and claim the development of knowledge and skills to assess and intervene in the context of cardiopulmonary health. O cardio-pulmonary stress test course intends to train and specialize professionals to intervene, making a difference, through a specialized exercise, for people.

Cardio-pulmonary stress tests have, in many cases, a determining role in the diagnosis, prevention, stratification and risk as a function of the characterization of the response to exercise of different cardiac, pulmonary and metabolic parameters. Evaluating and measuring cardio-pulmonary function parameters under the circumstances of physical exercise provides and enables health and sports science professionals to intervene safely and effectively. The focus is precisely on the need to intervene in the context of cardiopulmonary and metabolic function, to mitigate morbidity and mortality associated with and/or dependent on sedentary lifestyle, respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic diseases, and, above all, to improve individual and social indicators of well-being and health.

The Cardio-Pulmonary Stress Testing Course offers you an educational and training context, theoretical and practical, led by clinicians with different and complementary specialties that, as a whole, enable you to assimilate, retain, and apply a set of knowledge and skills that prepare you to implement assessments in public and private services and/or units.

The Cardio-Pulmonary Stress Testing Course was developed on and a technical scientific reference of 360 degrees, which prepare you to know how to do, communicate and apply to a multitude of clinical contexts, health and sports. Thus, the course program supports advanced learning about cardiorespiratory physiology, methodological rigor and techniques of cardiopulmonary assessment, metabolic, cardiovascular and ventilatory responses and limitations to progressive exercise, interpretation of tests, preparation of reports and discussion of clinical cases of the most frequent and/or serious cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.

The programmatic contents were detailed and thoroughly selected to add to the context of action of health professionals and sports science professionals, without unnecessary "fat" or redundancies. The main purpose is to objectively train for the application of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the context of the competencies that arise from the graduate training of students and professionals in sports science and medical sciences.

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OBJECTIVES

  Describe and explain physiological responses and factors limiting exercise;
  Describe and demonstrate methodological procedures to be developed with devices used in cardio-pulmonary stress tests;
  Describe and explain metabolic responses and limiting factors to exercise;
  Describe and explain exercise limiting cardiovascular responses and factors;
  Describe and explain exercise responses and limiting factors in the context of ventilation;
  Evaluate and select protocols for performing stress tests in athletes, sedentary individuals, and in patients;
  Know the role and interest of constant-load stress tests;
  Recognize the contraindications to performing the cardio-pulmonary stress test;
  Implement and describe methods of physical fitness assessment in a laboratory setting;
  Differentiate and evaluate normal and pathological findings frequent in cardio-pulmonary stress testing;
  Interpret and evaluate the behavior of variables during cardio-pulmonary stress tests;
  Organize and develop objective and intelligible reports;
  Discuss and evaluate case studies in light of biological individuality, training effect in different circumstances, and varied clinical cases;
  Implement cardio-pulmonary stress tests in a practical context and evaluate the results obtained.
Description

SKILLS TO GAIN FROM THE COURSE:

  • Understand the physiological response to progressive exercise;
  • Understand the limiting factors of the physiological response to progressive exercise;
  • Describe the typical responses found in patients with certain cardiorespiratory pathologies;
  • Distinguish pathological changes from "abnormal" physiological changes;
  • Know how to perform a PECP, from start to finish:
    • Proper choice of proof protocol;
    • Assessment and preparation of the subject;
    • Performance of the test;
    • Finish the test;
    • Proper data collection and evidence analysis;
    • Preparation of PECP reports;
  • Evaluating the effects of therapeutic interventions.

PROGRAM

8:00pm | 10:00pm Diana Ferreira

Course Presentation
Introduction to PECP - clinical applications/indications of PECP

8:00pm | 10:00pm José Alberto Duarte

Exercise physiology
Physiology of exercise limiting factors

20.00 | 22.00 José Alberto Duarte

Cardiovascular response to progressive exercise
Cardiovascular limitation to exercise

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Sousa

Metabolic response to progressive exercise
Metabolic limits to exercise

8:00pm | 10:00pm Rodrigo Zacca

How to perform a progressive stress test:
- Equipment and calibration;
- Quality control;
- Procedures (preparation of the PECP, evaluation of the subject and how to finish the test).

8:00pm | 10:00pm José Gomes Pereira

Meaning of the PECP variables and interpretation

8:00pm | 10:00pm Luís Moreno

Stress test protocols for athletes and patients: how to choose
Contraindications to performing PECP

8:00pm | 10:00pm Hélder Dores

Stress ECG - main changes in stress tests
Main diagnoses in Cardiology with PECP

8:00pm | 10:00pm Nuno Neuparth

Ventilatory mechanics in reposition
Respiratory function tests at rest
Pathophysiology and diagnosis of asthma

8:00pm | 10:00pm Nuno Cortesão

Ventilatory response to progressive exercise
Ventilatory limits to exercise
Limitation of pulmonary and vascular gas exchange during exercise

8:00pm | 10:00pm Diogo Dias

Normal values and most frequent pathological findings in PECP
Reporting

8:00pm | 9:00pm Rodrigo Zacca

Specificity in determining intensity zones in different environments (laboratory vs. field)

8:00pm | 10:00pm João Beckert and Ricardo Minhalma

Training at altitude: clinical application or a reality only for athletes?

09.00 | 13.00 Diana Ferreira and Rodrigo Zacca

Practical component
Maximum progressive stress tests

*Date subject to change 

Faculty

Diana Ferreira
Diana Ferreira
SCIENTIFIC-PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATOR AND LECTURER
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Ana Sousa Current
Ana Sousa
INFO
FMAC + JSA Helder Dores
Hélder Dores
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John Beckert
John Beckert
INFO
JAD
JOSÉ ALBERTO DUARTE
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Luís Moreno
Luís Moreno
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Nuno Neuparth
Nuno Neuparth
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Ricardo Minhalma
Ricardo Minhalma
INFO
Rodrigo Zacca
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FAQ's

Starts December 3, 2024.

Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live broadcast session of the course.

Registration fees:

until 03/10/2024 - 396€
until 03/11/2024 - 446€
after 03/11/2024 - 510€

Phased payment with registration:
70% - Upon registration
30% - After 30 days

  • Physicians specializing in Sports Medicine, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Anesthesiology, and other specialists with intervention in the technical and scientific context of the course.
  • Cardiopneumologists.

The final classification in the course will result from the quantitative classification obtained by the final exam. The assessment comprises the answers to a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Each correct answer contributes 1 point to the final classification. The exam will be held at the end of the course.

The final evaluation of each course is expressed through a classification on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 points, with approval being considered as obtaining a minimum of 10 points.

The final classification of the course can be accompanied by a qualitative mention, expressed on the following scale: Sufficient (10 to 13), Good (14 and 15), Very Good (16 and 17) and Excellent (18 to 20).

According to the Portuguese legislation (DL 42/2005 of 22 February), grades below 10, on a scale from 0 to 20, imply failure.
At the end of the course, an evaluation instrument will be applied to measure the participants’ satisfaction with the training process and the conditions for carrying out the course, aiming at possible improvement actions.

At the end of the course, a Professional Training Certificate will be issued, in accordance with current legislation (Ordinance No. 474/2010 of 8 July), to all participants who successfully complete the vocational training. This certificate, as well as a diploma, will be made available in digital format in the participant’s area, on the EMSaúde website, within a maximum period of 30 working days, after the end date of the course. If the student does not succeed, a Certificate of Attendance in Vocational Training will be issued.

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Registration fees:

until 03/10/2024 - 396€
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after 03/11/2024 - 510€

WHAT DOES THIS COURSE INCLUDE?

  26 hours of theoretical teaching - 100% online
  4 hours of practical component
  Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live session broadcast of the course
  Vocational Training Certificate* or Vocational Training Attendance Certificate
   * In addition, the right to the Diploma issued by a FIFA, ISAKOS, ESSKA and ICRS accredited centre.
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