From: Hall’s Journal of Health, Volume 26, March, 1879, Frontispiece III.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Spirometer, Air Shields Pulmonary Function Recorder, 1969
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1960
From http://dgrespiratory.com/other. The McKesson Vitalor was a dry wedge bellows spirometer. A pen attached to the top of the bellows marked on a small sheet of graph paper that was attached to an electric motor-driven platen (the curved silver plate). The mouthpiece was permanently attached to the front of the spirometer. A reviewer later noted that it was difficult to clean sputum out of the spirometer.
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1965
From: US Naval Air Development Center, Document NADC-MR-6516, “Post-flight chest discomfort in aviators: aero-atelectasis”, by Elihu York, page 3, 12/30/1965. The McKesson Vitalor was a dry wedge bellows spirometer. A pen attached to the top of the bellows marked on a small sheet of graph paper that was attached to an electric motor-driven platen. In this picture the subject is exhaling directly into the mouthpiece that was permanently attached to the front of the spirometer.
Spirometer, McKesson Vitalor, 1961
Spirometer, Spirometrics Flowmate Plus 2500
From a Dotmed Listing. Pneumotach based. Probably manufactured in the 1980’s.
Spirometer, Creative Biomedics DX Portable Plus with incentive LED cake
From a Creative Biomedics sales brochure. Many PC-based spirometry systems have a birthday cake with candles displayed on the screen as an incentive during spirometry. This spirometer came with its own birthday cake!
Spirometer, Creative Biomedics DX Portable Plus, front panel
From an Ebay.com listing. Pneumotach based. Manufactured by Creative Biomedics, San Clemente, CA, probably in the 1990’s.
Spirometer, Creative Biomedics DX Portable Plus, end view pneumotach
From an Ebay.com listing. Pneumotach based. Manufactured by Creative Biomedics, San Clemente, CA, probably in the 1990’s.
Spirometer, Creative Biomedics DX Portable Plus, Pneumotach side-view
From an Ebay.com listing. Pneumotach based. Manufactured by Creative Biomedics, San Clemente, CA, probably in the 1990’s.