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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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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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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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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