Reprodutibilidade do teste do degrau de chester em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

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Ano de defesa: 2009
Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Aline Nogueira de lattes
Orientador(a): Dal Corso, Simone lattes
Banca de defesa: Napolis, Lara Maris lattes, Oliveira, Luis Vicente Franco de lattes
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Nove de Julho
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Reabilitação
Departamento: Saúde
País: BR
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Link de acesso: http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/tede/handle/tede/800
Resumo: The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) produces dysfunction on peripheral skeletal muscles and damage on the physical capacity. The clinical field tests that avalue the capacity to exercise are important tools to the follow up of patients with COPD. Among the most utilized tests the out standings are: six-minute walk test, shuttle test and, most recently the step test. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reproducibility of the step test of Chester step test (CST) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Fourteen patients were studied (12 males) with stable COPD (FEV1 38,3  12,6 % of predicted). The patients performed two CST (48 hours apart). The total number of step, heart rate, peripheral oxihemoglobin saturation and perception of symptoms (dyspnea and fatigue lower limbs) obtained on the two CST presented good to excellent reproducibility. It was observed a significant correlation between the total number of steps and the heart rate measured at the peak of the test. In conclusion, the Chester step test is a reproducible test, and it can be an additional tool to evaluation for patients with COPD.