Metabolic Costs of Military Load Carriage over Complex Terrain.

Conclusion: Current predictive equations underestimate the metabolic cost of load carriage by military personnel over complex terrain. Applying the Santee et al correction factor to the Pandolf et al equation may be the most suitable approach for estimating metabolic demands in these circumstances. However, this work also outlines the need for improvements to these methods, new method development and validation, or the use of a multi-model approach to account for mixed terrain. PMID: 29860513 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29860513?dopt=Abstract

Source: Military Medicine - June 6, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research