There was no allegation of malfunction.The patient was on the treadmill and when the stage changed at 4 min, the patient fell on her left side.She sustained injuries to her left shoulder and left knee which have left her with loss of motion and pain in the left shoulder and discomfort in the left knee.The patient was seriously injured as defined by fda due to permanent injury.This treadmill is intended to be used during stress testing.It is equipped with an emergency stop button for the patient as well as can be stopped by the clinician using the stress system that is controlling it.Furthermore, standard of care dictates that exercise stress tests on treadmills are closely supervised.
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