signal "beep" and after 6 minutes are up the device will automatically move on to the "recovery" stage and the timer will be reset to zero
again.
Recovery stage
The duration of this stage is entirely up to the doctor and it is not indicated in any way (at the beginning of this stage the timer resets to
zero).
To end the test press the ON/OFF key. At the end of the test the estimated distance walked during the walk stage is displayed.
The user may accept this value or manually insert the distance walked by touching the
icon. Next the device will require the user to insert other data related to the state
of health of the patient. By touching the "Yes" icon the user will view the screenshots
to insert the following data
•
Taken oxygen?
•
Baseline DYSPNEA
•
Final DYSPNEA
•
Baseline FATIGUE
•
Final FATIGUE
•
Baseline Diastolic
•
Baseline Sistolic
•
Final Diastolic
•
Final Sistolic
Touching "NO" icon, the device shows immediately the test parameters.
WARNING
If in the voice "set parameters" of the service menu, the parameters dyspnea, fatigue, diastolic and systolic are disabled, at
the end of the test, the device requests only the distance walked.
For oxygen administration purposes the device allows to select from:
If oxygen was administered to the patient before testing, the user may insert a value
by using the screen on the right side. By using the L/min unit decimal values may
be inserted (icon); when using % only whole values may be used.
The acceptable range of values for the two units are:
The dyspnea and fatigue parameters are represented in the Borg scale and can have the
following values in the table to the right.
The coefficients of the Borg scale are represented by the following severity values:
The distance walked by the patient (expressed in meters) is automatically estimated by
the accelerometer in the device which calculates the number of steps. However it is
possible to modify the estimated distance walked by using the
The diastolic and systolic values are expressed in millimeters of mercury (mmHg).
Data is inserted using the visualized numbers, to move on to the next value touch the
OK icon.
Test data from a walk test can be printed by following directions explained in paragraph
4.2. When the test results are printed, the paper report only shows the data related to
the walking stage. To view an example please see the attached reports included in this
manual.
SPIRODOC
NO
Not administered
administered in L/minute
Unit
Minimum
L/min
%
cod. 980156
L/min
administered in %
Maximum
0.1
6.5
20
99
Scale
icon.
Rev 4.2.1
%
Severity
0
None
0.5
Very Very Slight (Just Noticeable)
1
Very slight
2
Slight
3
Moderate
4
Somewhat severe
5
Severe
6
"
7
Very severe
8
"
9
Very very severe (almost maximum)
10
maximum
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