Spiroergometrie v kardiologii a sportovní medicíně – Várnay František, Homolka Pavel, Mífková Leona, Dobšák Petr (2020)

The book is based on the authors' many years of practice and is intended not only for doctors performing spiroergometric examinations but also for other professionals who encounter the results of spiroergometry and apply them in practice, coaches of performance and elite athletes, and students of medical and sports faculties. This richly documented color publication (71 tables, 225 graphs and images) will be particularly welcomed by cardiologists, internists, sports medicine doctors, and pulmonologists. However, it can also be used by assessment doctors, general practitioners, and rehabilitation specialists for interpreting examination results, as well as physiotherapists involved in cardiovascular rehabilitation and especially coaches of performance athletes. The introduction describes the physiological processes occurring during exercise and the methodological procedures for correctly performing spiroergometry. The subsequent sections detail and describe in a new way the individual parameters monitored during both the exercise and recovery phases of the spiroergometric examination. New types of color graphs are used in this context. A separate chapter discusses the methods for determining both ventilatory thresholds and includes an overview of lactate thresholds, particularly in relation to ventilatory thresholds. The section of the book dedicated to cardiology describes the application of the results...