About Quality Messages For Trials And Quality Grades For Tests - NDD EasyOne Pro Operator's Manual

Performing lung function tests
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About quality messages for trials and quality grades for tests

Operator's Manual V5.0 • EasyOne Pro/LAB Rev. 05
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Practice by testing yourself and others
If you are new to spirometry, practice by testing yourself and colleagues prior
to testing patients. You will learn to recognize a poor effort by observing the
patient and/or interpreting the quality messages displayed by EasyOne Pro/
LAB after each trial. After a poor trial, you must explain what went wrong.
Develop enthusiastic coaching techniques to use during the breathing
maneuver to maximize your chances of getting quality results with a minimum
number of trials.
Animation program for children
An animation program for children is available for the FVC test and the FVL
test. You can choose between three animations: balloon, cake, and monkey.
When the animation program is activated, the manufacturer recommends
disabling the manual test stop and working with the automatic test stop. You
can configure manual or automatic test stop under
> Test > General > Test Procedure.
 Breathing maneuvers for all available tests, 94
Avoiding contamination while performing spirometry, 98
Test Procedure, 108
Quality messages
To obtain reliable results, an acceptable quality of the trials is necessary. The
quality of a trial depends on cooperation of the patient and this, in turn,
depends on the quality of your instructions. To facilitate giving good
instructions to the patient, an automatic quality control function displays
feedback prompts. After each trial, a message on the screen informs you
whether the trial is acceptable or not. If the trial is not acceptable, the
message will guide you on how to coach the patient to do better.
When you see the Test complete
trials.
Quality grades
A quality grading from A to F is displayed at the end of the test. It provides
information on the overall quality of the test. You should keep performing
trials with the patient until the quality grade is an A or a B. Only after several
trials, when the patient is exhausted and if the patient has already had a
break, a quality grade C is sufficient.
 List of quality messages and quality grades, 86
Utilities > Configuration
message, you do not need to conduct further
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