6 Minute Walk Test
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Fred is being assessed for his limited endurance using the 6 minute walk test.
The physical therapist is challenged with determining the appropriate means of administering the 6 minute walk test.
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| 0:00.0 | You are now tuning in to the MPTE clinical files to mock MPTE-based questions told and solved |
| 0:07.0 | by week. Thank you for tuning in to the MPT clinical files. My name is Kyle Rice, the MPT prep coach, |
| 0:13.2 | the founder of the PT Hustle and the creator of the MPT Prep Success coaching program. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you would like a free cheat sheet that goes along with this specific |
| 0:22.4 | question, tune in to the end of this episode. I'm going to give you more information on how to get |
| 0:27.8 | that. All right. So for our next MPT clinical file, we have our patient Fred. And Fred |
| 0:32.9 | underwent a cardiac transplant two weeks ago in is undergoing an evaluation in outpatient. |
| 0:39.0 | The therapist elects to use the standardized six-minute walk test, or 6MWT, to assess the patient's |
| 0:48.4 | functional endurance. Three minutes into the test, the patient requests to rest. Which of the following should the |
| 0:56.2 | therapist do next? So we have A, encourage the patient to continue walking as far as they can. |
| 1:02.0 | B, remind the patient that stopping or leaning is allowed. C, remind the patient that the test will |
| 1:09.0 | end once they stop. And D is call EMS. All right. So for this week, |
| 1:15.8 | we have Fred, right? And Fred underwent this cardiac transplant, definitely a condition, |
| 1:24.2 | a procedure that you need to be aware of for the actual MPTE because heart transplants can cause |
| 1:31.1 | a lot of issues related to like heart, heart electricity and conductance and so forth. |
| 1:36.9 | So you need to know about that. |
| 1:37.9 | You need to know about what different measures that we can use for these patients. |
| 1:41.5 | In this particular circumstance, |
| 1:44.9 | we have this patient who had a cardiac transplant two weeks ago |
| 1:48.3 | and is undergoing this evaluation and outpatient. |
| 1:52.5 | Now, the next sentence says that the therapist elects to use |
| 1:55.7 | the standardized six-minute walk test, |
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