Quality Control of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Equipment

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00001883

990067

99-H-0067

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to make sure exercise equipment used by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is working properly. Healthy volunteers will be requested to use P-CCMB cardiopulmonary exercise equipment (treadmills and exercise bicycles) two times a month to ensure the machines are functioning properly.

Full description

Proper functioning of recently acquired P-CCMB cardiopulmonary exercise equipment will be verified by testing healthy volunteers. In addition, quality control will be verified by performing monthly testing of healthy volunteers as biologic standards.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

INCLUSION:

Healthy research volunteers who are between 21 and 65 years.

EXCLUSION:

Patients with a history of ischemic or valvular heart disease.

Patients with history of chronic pulmonary disease.

Pregnant women.