Cosmed Quark PFT, Manual

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Chapter 12 - Exercise Testing - 111
Software configuration
The software can be customised as you wish. Most of the feature are easily editable to
be tailored according to different purposes.
Data viewing
The software allows to calculate a huge number of parameters; it is advisable, in order
to simplify the analysis of the results, view in the data window the only desired
parameters.
Select the parameters to view
1. Choose Parameters to view/Test visualisation… from the Options menu.
2. Select the parameters you require to view.
3. Press
OK to confirm the selected configuration.
Select the parameters to view during the test
1. Choose Parameters to view/Test execution… from the Options menu.
2. Select the parameters you require to view.
3. Press
OK to confirm the selected configuration.
Sort the parameters
It is possible to sort the parameters (both for viewing and printing purposes) according
to the desired order.
1. Select
Sorting parameters from the Options menu.
2. Move the parameters in the order you want by pressing and holding the left mouse
button.
3. Press OK to maintain the current configuration.
Steady State
The program has an algorithm to tag sets of steps as Steady State.
The algorithm considers belonging to the Steady State the only consecutive steps that
meet the following conditions:
•
The value of VO2, VE and R do not vary from their mean values more than
Threshold (%) ;
•
The number of consecutive steps that met the preceding criteria are at least
Minimum number of steps .
Customise the Steady State detection criteria
1. Choose Steady State from the Options menu
2. Type the desired values for Minimum number of steps , VO
2
threshold (%) , VE
threshold (%) and R threshold .
The steps which satisfy these conditions will be highlighted with a yellow bar.