I thought people having a major operation lay immobile while the surgeon worked...
Bugger, THAT'S where I've been going wrong......
(The relationship between exercise capacity and outcome is pretty near perfectly predictive, actually. More and more decisions made on e.g. planned ICU postoperatively or not, or chemo/radio vs surgery, or which operation, and so forth, taking CPX variables into account. Pre-op decision support has for few years been by far the most common clinical use of the test.)
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