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(Chest. 1992;101:236S-241S.)
© 1992 American College of Chest Physicians

Individualized Ramp Treadmill

Observations on a New Protocol

Jonathan Myers Ph.D.1; Nancy Buchanan B.S.2; David Smith M.D.2; Joel Neutel M.D.2; Eric Bowes 2; Doug Walsh B.S.2; and Victor F. Froelicher M.D.2

1 The Cardiology Department Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, Calif, and the University of California, Irvine., Palo Alto VA Medical Center, Palo Alto, California.
2 The Cardiology Department Long Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, Calif, and the University of California, Irvine.

In recent years, a call for "optimizing" exercise testing, including customizing the test given the specific conditions, patient, or test purpose has been made. The ramp test has several features that allow it to meet these recommendations. Herein we have described a method of performing the test. Naturally, the approach was empirical and relied greatly on intuition. The protocol must be validated in different patient populations. Moreover, to our knowledge, this test has never been used to evaluate a clinical intervention. More data are necessary to confirm its usefulness in clinical trials.






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