A spirometer is an apparatus for measuring the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. A spirometer measures ventilation, the movement of air...
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An incentive spirometer is a handheld medical device used to help patients improve the functioning of their lungs. By training patients to take slow and...
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Spirometry (section Spirometer)
test is performed using a device called a spirometer, which comes in several different varieties. Most spirometers display the following graphs, called spirograms:...
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(FVC). A person's vital capacity can be measured by a wet or regular spirometer. In combination with other physiological measurements, the vital capacity...
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Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics (2014), which looks at the history of correcting for race in spirometers, and for which she...
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closed-circuit system where a spirometer is filled with a mixture of helium (He) and oxygen. The amount of He in the spirometer is known at the beginning...
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the closed spirometer, that the patient has no helium in their lungs, and that an equilibration of helium can occur between the spirometer and the lungs...
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Ian Donald (section Trip spirometer)
reader at Hammersmith Hospital. He developed a device called the Trip Spirometer, which measured the respiratory efficiency of a neonate. In 1953, he improved...
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capacity and expiratory reserve volume can be measured directly with a spirometer. These are the basic elements of a ventilatory pulmonary function test...
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can be done automatically using an external monitoring system such as a spirometer or a camera and markers. The same monitoring techniques, as well as 4DCT...
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John Hutchinson invented the spirometer, which allowed the measurement of vital capacity of the lungs. However, his spirometer could only measure volume...
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physiotherapy, focusing on deep breathing and encouraging coughing. An incentive spirometer is often used as part of the breathing exercises. Walking is also highly...
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Fig. 3 Output of a 'spirometer'. Upward movement of the graph, read from the left, indicates the intake of air; downward movements represent exhalation...
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1980 and based in Rome, Italy, COSMED started manufacturing portable spirometers and pulmonary function testing equipment. In the nineties, the company...
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The 1846 introduction by surgeon John Hutchinson (1811–1861) of the spirometer, an apparatus for assessing the mechanical properties of the lungs via...
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While pneumonia is a localized infection, pneumonitis is widespread. A spirometer may also be used to measure pulmonary function. During external examination...
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Incentive spirometers deepen lung ventilation after surgery to avoid atelectasis...
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to determine blood pressure in medicine. See also Category:Blood tests Spirometer Capnograph Electroencephalograph records the electrical activity of the...
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detail, noting whether the patient has been regularly using an incentive spirometer or not, whether a Foley catheter was/is in place, what medications s/he...
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V}{\Delta P}}} For example, if a patient inhales 500 mL of air from a spirometer with an intrapleural pressure before inspiration of −5 cm H2O and −10 cm...
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received medical training at University College. Hutchinson invented the spirometer, a device for measuring lung capacity, which he used while evaluating...
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Another trial at Metz went horribly wrong when a breathing test on a spirometer caused Platini to faint. The doctor's verdict on Platini's breathing difficulties...
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in mL of pure gaseous oxygen per minute. This may be measured using a spirometer within a closed rebreathing circuit incorporating a CO2 absorber Ca, the...
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body) diameter. When a known air volume is inhaled and measured with a spirometer, a volume-motion relationship can be established as the sum of the abdominal...
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patients such as using a PFLEX inspiratory muscle trainer or the inspiratory spirometer. Learning to play a musical instrument also offers motivation in addition...
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chemist, physiologist, and nutritionist who developed a calorimeter and a spirometer used to determine oxygen consumption and measure metabolic rate. Born...
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{\displaystyle RSBI={\frac {f}{V_{T}}}} Measurement is done with a handheld spirometer attached to the endotracheal tube while a patient breathes room air for...
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asked to take a deep breath and then blow into the mouthpiece of the spirometer as hard as you can. This is a baseline measurement. A dose of bronchodilator...
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Function Test, a simple test in which the patient inhales and exhales into a spirometer, is normally used to diagnose asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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instruments of which several had considerable practical importance, such as the spirometer and the apparatus for measuring basal metabolic rate. Krogh began lecturing...
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