To start a spirometry test in custo diagnostic click on Examinations and select Spirometry.
Select New Spirometry.
Choose or enter a patient.
Choose the predicted value author and start the spirometry test.
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Please advice the patient to hold still the spirometry device in his/her hands without any moving! Than Click on <Start>.
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Now the patient must place the mouthpiece, attached to the spirometer, in his/her mouth and place a nose clip on his/her nose, so that all of the air will go through the spirometer. The patient have to breath "normally".
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After breathing normally (indicated by signal on the display) the patient should slowly blow out until his/her lungs are empty.
Then the patient has to take a big deep breath (in) to fill up his/her lungs completely.
As soon as his/her lungs are full, he/she has to blow out as fast as he/she can until his/her lungs are absolutely empty.
Than the patient can breath normally for a short while until the test has stopped.
Repeat the test until there are three good efforts.
This is a graphic, how the spirometry test calculates the values from the time/volume diagram.
