Found on the Steno Museum Website. The Vitalograph spirometer used pressure-sensitive paper that was placed in a curved plate on the front of the spirometer. The stylus was attached to the bellows and motor moved the plate sideways during a spirometry test, causing a volume-time curve to be drawn on the paper.
Tag Archives: Vitalograph
Spirometer, Vitalograph, 1970, Model S
Found on the Steno Museum Website. Described there (via Google Translate) as “h: 24cm x W: 39.5 cm xl: 38.5 cm. Green body with a curved front side on which there is a red and a plate type. You place a piece of paper on the red plate and appliance draw as the result of the test down that end. On the front is also pipes – this is what the patient breathes in, so the speed and amount of air can be measured. The unit is a cord with on-off switch and a catalog concerning measurement of lung ventilation and spirometry. ”
Vitalograph Spirometer Product Line, 1994, Advertisement
From Respiratory Care, 1994, Volume 39, No. 12, page 1140.
Spirometer, Vitalograph Spirotrac III, 1991, Advertisement
From Respiratory Care, 1991, Volume 36, No. 12, page 1363.
Spirometer, Vitalograph, 1992, Diagram
From “Pulmonary Function Testing: A Practical Approach” by Jack Wanger, published by Williams and Wilkins, 1992, page 11.
Spirometer, Vitalograph, 1992
From “Pulmonary Function Testing: A Practical Approach” by Jack Wanger, published by Williams and Wilkins, 1992, page 11.
Spirometer, Vitalograph Compact, 1987
Used an un-heated Fleisch pneumotach. From Office Spirometry. A practical guide to the selection and use of spirometers. By PL Enright and RE Hyatt. Published by Lea and Febiger, 1987. Page 123.
Spirometer, Vitalograph Model R, 1987
From Office Spirometry. A practical guide to the selection and use of spirometers. By PL Enright and RE Hyatt. Published by Lea and Febiger, 1987. Page 97.
Spirometer, Vitalograph S-Model, 1980
From InfoWorld Sep 15, 1980, page 22.
Spirometer, Vitalograph 2150, circa 2000
From Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Primary Care, By Margaret Barnett, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2006, page 48.