Introduction - CareFusion Micro Diary Operating Manual

Introduction

The Micro Diary spirometer is a compact, battery
operated, and fully portable data recording spirometer
designed specifically to collect FEV1, PEF, FVC or FEV6,
and symptom scores in epidemiological studies and drug
trials.
The Micro Diary connects to a PC for configuration and
uploading of stored data using the Micro Diary System
Windows™ based software. This software allows the unit
to be easily customised for a particular trial and includes
many built in safeguards to ensure the integrity of the
accumulated data.
The unit can be configured to take spirometry readings
and symptom scores, entered either numerically, on an
analogue scale, or from a scroll down list of responses.
The results are stored together with the time and date of
testing. Various identifiers such as trial centre, unit
number, and description are also stored.
Different sequences of questions and spirometry tests may
be configured for 4 individual time zones. Each sequence
is activated by the subject turning the unit on, within the
relevant time zone, or by answering an optional alarm.
After completing a sequence the unit turns off
automatically. Having completed a time zone sequence, a
supplementary sequence will be activated if the unit is
turned on again within the time zone or between zones.
Note that once a time zone sequence has been completed,
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