Smoking is attributed as the main cause of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). COPD is often undiagnosed and untreated in its early stages, especially in smokers.
A key indicator of COPD is a reduced FEV1 compared with predicted FEV1 value. Early identification of a reduction in FEV1 can provide early warning of the damage already suffered by the lungs at the pre-symptomatic stage, when smoking cessation is most effective.
The Vitalograph lung age compares a subject's FEV1 with predicted normal values to calculate the subject's 'lung age'. A high lung age in relation to the subject's chronological age can illustrate the likely negative impact of continued smoking on lung function and encourage smoking cessation.
|Product||Vitalograph lung age|
|Parameters Displayed||lung age, FEV1 and % predicted|
|lung age Indicator||Yes|
|Quality of Blow Indicator||Yes|
|Accuracy||Better than +/- 3%|
|Range||0 - 9.99 L BTPS|
|Flow Impedance||Better than 0.15 kPa/L/s at 14 L/s|
|Power Supply||AAA batteries|
|Display||Custom Liquid Crystal Display|
|Size||113 x 63 x 48mm|
|Operating Temperature||17 - 37°C|
|Cleaning||Alcohol wipe, especially the mouthpiece, weekly|
|Performance standard||ATS/ERS Guidelines 2005|
|Safety Standards||EN ISO 6061-1:2005 -1 -2 -4|
|Medical Safety Standard||Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC1993|
|Designed and manufactured to following QA/GMP standards||ISO 13485:2003