High Altitude & Cardiopulmonary
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Ricky has recently started training at a specialized facility located 6,200ft above sea level. The therapist would like to create safe cardiovascular parameters for exercise at this new elevation. Which of the following would be the MOST expected when exercising at a high altitude:
A. Lower maximal heart rate
B. Higher maximal heart rate
C. Lower resting heart rate
D. Respiratory acidosis
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see the life I |
| 0:22.5 | have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to change |
| 0:28.2 | lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.4 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:56.7 | For this week's clinical file, |
| 1:04.4 | we have Ricky and Ricky has recently started training at a specialized facility, located 6,200 feet above sea level. The therapist would like to create safe cardiovascular parameters for exercise at this new elevation, |
| 1:14.8 | which of the following would be the most expected when exercising at a high altitude. So we have |
| 1:22.5 | a lower maximal heart rate, B, higher maximal heart rate, C, lower resting heart rate, and D is |
| 1:33.4 | respiratory acidosis, all right? Let's go up to the top of this one, like I was saying before, |
| 1:39.9 | like this, this is one of these altitude-based questions where you got to know what altitude |
| 1:44.6 | does to our cardiovascular system. |
| 1:47.7 | And you got to watch out for this in the literature as well in the book because altitude |
| 1:53.9 | can have immediate effects on the body, but after we get acclimated to the higher altitude, |
| 2:04.5 | sometimes those changes can start to come back to near normal. All right. And so you got to have a really good understanding here. Let's break this one down. |
| 2:11.1 | It says Ricky has recently started training at a specialized facility located 6,200 feet above sea level. All right, a little |
| 2:21.7 | too high for me here. But here it is. When we're talking about altitude, really anything above |
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