NORMAL VALUES FOR CPX FOR 1408 CONSECUTIVE PATIENTS SCHEDULED FOR MAJOR SURGERY (Updating in progress June 2006)
from June 1997 - Mar 2004 at Western Hospital, Victoria, Australia
(All patients over 65 years are screened by CPET routinely before major intracavity surgery;
any patients under 65 but with known cardiac/pulmonary disease are also tested.)
female male total
545 863 1408
AT* Ve/VO2 Peak VO2^ Pmax(+) Age AT* weight BSA height Stroke Index Vmax/Kg
ml/min/kg  ml/M2
Average 12.3 30.9 1132 126 68 496 74 1.8 165.0 33.4 15
Std. 2.7 5.9 356 20 10 115 17 0.2 11 8.4 4.8
median 12.0 73.0
Female data 11.5 30.7 922.5 125.1 68.3 455.6 68.6 1.7
Male data 13.0 30.6 1236.7 123.4 67.6 524.5 76.3 1.9

*AT = anaerobic threshold

 ^Vmax is not routinely sought (+)Pmax is maximum pulse rate at peak VO2

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