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Performing spirometry
7.3
About quality messages for trials and quality grades for tests
Operator's Manual V1.1 • EasyOne Air • EasyOne Connect
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Carefully watch the patient
It is your responsibility to watch the patient for signs of distress. After several
trials, let the patient take a break. If it is not possible to obtain an adequate
number of good trials, even after repeated attempts, you should let the
patient rest, depending on how the patient feels, or stop the measurement
entirely. After a break, you can still pick up a test and add trials, or print the
report.
Animation program for children
If you use EasyOne Connect in combination with EasyOne Air, an animation
program for children is available. The animation is available for the FVC test,
the FVL test and the SVC 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, 75
Avoiding contamination while performing spirometry, 80
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, 73
Utilities > Configuration
message, you do not need to conduct further
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