RESP
330
CARDIOPULMONARY
DIAGNOSTICS
OBJECTIVES
#3
TESTING
EQUIPMENT AND PROTOCOLS
READING
ASSIGNMENTS:
|
Ruppel |
357-455 |
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141 - 153 |
AFTER
COMPLETING READING ASSIGNMENTS AND ATTENDING CLASSES THE STUDENT
1. Describe
the advantages and drawbacks for the four types of volume displacement
spirometers
Water
Seal
Bellows
Dry
Rolling Seal
Wedge
2. Explain
the advantages and drawbacks of four types of flow sensing devices
Turbine
Pressure
differential pneumotachometer
Heated
element (wire or bead)
Pitot
tube
3. Explain
two ways a volume measuring device can be used to obtain information on air
flowrates
4. Explain
how flow measuring devices can be used to obtain information on gas volumes moved
in or out of the lungs
5. Explain
the construction and use of devices used for the measurement of these gas
concentrations
Oxygen
Polarographic
Galvanic
Zirconium
Fuel Cell
Helium
Carbon
monoxide
Nitrogen
6. Explain
the value of representing the information about gas flows and volumes in
graphic format.
7. Identify
and explain the advantages of these types of graphs of data that may be
generated by PFT machines
Volume
versus time
Flow
versus volume
Gas
concentration versus volume
8. Describe
how computerization of the pulmonary function laboratory has changed the field
of testing and reporting
9. Define
accuracy and precision of testing and describe how the are evaluated with
pulmonary function testing