order CPET to diagnose chronic dyspnea and assess preoperative risks

  • assess chronic dyspnea1
  • evaluate preoperative risk for lung cancer2

Footnotes

  1. An Algorithmic Approach to Chronic Dyspnea ↩

  2. Colice GL, Shafazand S, Griffin JP, Keenan R, Bolliger CT; American College of Chest Physicians. Physiologic evaluation of the patient with lung cancer being considered for resectional surgery: ACCP evidenced-based clinical practice guidelines (2nd edition). Chest. 2007 Sep;132(3 Suppl):161S-77S. doi: 10.1378/chest.07-1359. PMID: 17873167. ↩