While you are assisting in a treadmill cardiopulmonary stress test procedure, the patient com-plains to you of severe shortness of breath and some chest pain. Which of the following actions would you recommend at this time?
a. Increase the O2 flow rate.
b. Decrease the treadmill speed.
c. Decrease the treadmill incline.
d. Terminate the procedure at once.
ANS: D
To guide practitioners in implementing exercise evaluation, the AARC has published Clinical Practice Guidelines: Exercise Testing for Evaluation of Hypoxemia and/or Desaturation and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
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