| The mouthpiece of a peak flow meter or the mouth-piece and filter of a spirometer should be changed between uses on different patients. |
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| Between 1964 and 1974, the spirometry was performed with the McKerrow spirometer. |
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| Respiratory toilet is encouraged hourly throughout the postoperative period with the aid of an incentive spirometer. |
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| Additionally, respiratory therapy personnel taught Mr V how to use the incentive spirometer. |
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| Asthma specialists make several measurements with a spirometer, a computerized machine that takes detailed measurements of breathing ability. |
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| During the test, you'll breathe into a spirometer, which measures the function of your lungs when you inhale and exhale. |
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| Depending on the age of the child, a peak flow meter or a machine called a spirometer may be used to check lung function. |
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| Another form of exercise specific to your lungs is the incentive spirometer. |
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| By mid-century, the stethoscope had been joined by the ophthalmoscope and laryngoscope, the thermometer and spirometer. |
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| The volume breathed out in the first second of forceful blowing into a spirometer, measured in litres. |
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| The spirometer was connected to the palmtop computer via a serial port. |
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| Vital capacity was measured in liters of air by the spirometer. |
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| After extubation, the nurse and respiratory therapist assist the patient with using an incentive spirometer and deep breathing and coughing every one to two hours while awake. |
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| You can use the spirometer while lying on your back or on your side, while sitting up or even standing. |
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| In a paper published last year, 52 patients compared the mobile-based spirometer with a clinical one. |
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| Here use was made of a spirometer to measure the volume of the inhaled and the exhaled air. |
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| During a starting phase, also called preparation phase, the patient is getting acquainted to the use of the spirometer. |
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| The measurements are saved in the Flash memory of the spirometer and can be printed and saved on a PC for archiving. |
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| The spirometer is connected to a computer that makes flow-volume curves, like the two shown below. |
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| A USB connection carries the information and provides the energy needed to supply the electronic card on the spirometer. |
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| In modern design combined with the touchscreen In2itive the benefits of absolute mobility with the characteristics of a fully fledged network-enabled PC spirometer. |
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| Q I suffer from chronic bronchitis and my doctor has said that I should have a spirometer test. |
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| This report on the global spirometer market is analyzed and segmented on the basis of product, technology, end user, application, and geography. |
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| Using the spirometer will help you inflate your lungs more fully. |
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| You will be asked to blow three or more times into the spirometer. |
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| He and his team have developed an iPhone app, called SpiroSmart, that simulates a digital spirometer, the device that measures the volume of air a person can expel from her lungs. |
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| Otthon is available with a wireless Bluetooth connection for telemedicine: the patient blows in the spirometer that is connected to the mobile phone wirelessly. |
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| He regularly tests his own pulmonary capacity on something called a spirometer, and he has been known to exult when his forced expiratory volume goes over eighty per cent of his forced vital capacity. |
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| Using a large, syringelike device, a known volume of air is moved into and out of the spirometer in order to provide a test signal. |
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| The following picture shows the spirometer in combination with a printer. |
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| Instead of using a handheld controller, the game is controlled by a digital spirometer, a device that measures how fast and how much air the player breathes out. |
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| Patients with suspected conditions such as asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease breathe into the spirometer to assess how well their lungs work. |
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