Inter and Intra reliability of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in AAA
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Inter and Intra reliability of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in abdominal aortic aneurysm patients.
IRAS ID
199037
Contact name
Amy Harwood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
HEY Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Exercise testing is commonly being used in patients before surgery to test their overall fitness. One group it is being used in is patients who have an enlarged blood vessel in their stomach. This is known as an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The exercise test used is known as a cardiopulmonary exercise test as it looks at both heart and lung function at the same time. Whilst this test is commonly used there have been no studies (to date) which have looked at how reliable this test is; this means how well we can obtain the same (or very similar) results after multiple tests. We would like to test this reliabilty both between patients and the clinicians performing the testing.
REC name
London - Westminster Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/LO/0785
Date of REC Opinion
25 Apr 2016
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion