Pre-Exercise Health Screening Guide

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Summary

An essential reference for using the ACSM pre-exercise screening guidelines

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Introduction
introduction to pre-exercise screening	p. 1
why screen?	p. 1
risks and benefits	p. 4
a cost-benefit analysis	p. 6
the structure of pre-exercise screening systems	p. 9
different screening systems	p. 10
the four stages of screening	p. 10
how are cut-offs chosen?	p. 25
the ACSM 1995 system	p. 27
system overview	p. 29
stage 1: known disease	p. 30
stage 2: signs and symptoms of disease	p. 31
stage 3: cardiac risk factors	p. 32
stage 4: age and exercise intentions	p. 33
how to treat missing information	p. 34
after screening, what next?	p. 39
app. A: sample forms	p. 43
app. B: practice cases	p. 49
app. C: a pharmacopoeia	p. 73
bibliography	p. 79
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