OHD Koko Spirometer

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The OHD Spirometer is powered by the most comprehensive spirometry software available. Its customizable design allows the user to easily adapt the performance to the level of sophistication required.

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1. The OHD Spirometer exceeds all ATS (American Thoracic Society) 1994 "Standardization of Spirometry." Many of the current spirometers on the market do not have a letter from the LDS Hospital that validates meeting the new ATS 1994 standards. The LDS laboratory is currently the industry standard for ATS validation testing. The 1994 ATS recommendations address several new issues of Spirometry, namely diagnostic versus monitoring spirometers, multiple flow calibration of pneumotach based systems, the use of infection control filters, and correction for BTPS: normal body temperature, ambient pressure saturated with watervapor. To address the validation under 1994 ATS recommendations, the LDS laboratory added testing procedures, specifically BTPS correction testing using heated humidified air for accuracy testing “because of potential problems associated with BTPS correction.” The data for the OHD spirometers by OHD exceed these recommendations.

2. The OHD Spirometer utilizes a BRASS "Fleisch-Type" pneumotach, proven in the industry to provide unparalleled accuracy and durability. The brass pneumotach gives better accuracy because of its unsurpassed ability to compensate for temperature and humidity changes. Most of the other Fleisch Type pneumotachs are made of plastic or of a disposable material, which are not as accurate as the brass type.

3. The OHD Spirometer has multiple predicted sets built into the software, including the new Hankinson (NHANES III) predictives, which were published in 1999. This new set of Hankinson predictives could be standard for most all occupational and industrial pulmonary function tests in the future.

4. The OHD Spirometer gives you side-by-side real-time Flow/Volume Loop and Volume/Time graphics during an actual test. Many of the current spirometers do not give any curves in real time but only when printed. OHD feels it is very important to be able to view “both” curves in real-time so that the user gets better results and better quality assurance. The stand-alone spirometers only give the user the curve when it prints or only the volume time curve on volume spirometers. The technician needs to view the curve during the actual test.

5. The OHD Spirometer gives you multiple incentive graphics for patient/employee coaching. If the user has an employee that is on the borderline for respiratory clearance, the incentive can oftentimes get the user over the minimums for respirator clearance. The visual incentive is related to that person’s predicted normals, in order that a better effort and therefore better results are achieved. We feel incentive graphics give you better results on testing. We have seen as much as a 10% better effort using incentives.

6. The OHD Spirometer utilizes a high precision multi-flow calibration syringe. This increases accuracy, reproducibility, and ease of calibration. Our multiflow calibration syringe gives the user the exact flow rates for each calibration speed, and all the calibration records are stored for future reference!

7. The OHD Spirometer has trend analysis of employee/patient results built into the software. The benefit to you is that the user can immediately trend a persons FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC, PEFR (or any other PFT parameter). If an employees results are 120% of predicted and lower limits of normal are around 70% of predicted, the user would not find problems with that employee’s PFT for several years, unless you were doing a historical trend analysis. To do this, one would have to pull the charts and manually trend the data. We do this for you without having to pull the records. All the user does is to select our trend report, and immediately it gives you the historical trend.

8. The OHD Spirometer has a fully customizable report format. This allows the user to customize their reports if desired. Reports and their contents, automated interpretation, predicted values, and graphics format as well as sizes are easily customized. It is very easy to use.

9. The OHD Spirometer is Windows based and also net-workable in Windows NT. This will allow the user to store all previous tests for an employee, as well as calibration records. Often, on stand alone spirometers the user cannot save past tests, past calibration records, or even demographic data on the employee. For many systems, each time a person is tested the demographic data has to be re-keyed, which takes extra time. All previous tests and calibration records are easily accessed for viewing and/or printing.

10. The OHD Spirometer has direct dial-up connectivity, which allows multiple offices to share patient data files. If your medical department needed to review the spirogram from another site, this feature might be valuable. Most other Spirometers do not offer this feature.