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2. Select a patient from the list of saved tests. Touch Patient ID, Patient name, Birth
date, or Efforts.
3. Touch the Continue test button.
4. Touch the View or Incentive button to select the display information that you want
to view during the test.
a. Modify the View settings as desired:
• View Flow/Volume. (View FV curve)
• View Volume/Time. (View VT curve)
• View Flow/Volume and Volume/Time. (View FV & VT)
• View Parameters.
b. Modify the screen settings as desired:
• Incentive screen
• Curves screen
5. When the patient is ready, touch the Start post #_ button to perform the spirometry
test.
Note Coach the patient through the effort.
The device stops automatically when air stops moving (that is, when the ATS end-of-
test criteria are met).
6. (Optional) touch the Stop button when the test has been completed.
7. Decide whether to accept the effort.
8. Touch the Accept button to save the post test and continue or touch the Reject
button.
If a test is rejected the next post-test will increment in number. Even if some efforts
were deleted, the test record indicates the patient’s total number of efforts.
9. Continue with post-test efforts, when finished touch the Post-test done button to
accept the post-tests.
10. Touch Print to print the test report, touch Test results to preview the test report, or
touch ATS Interpretation to add or edit ATS interpretations. Touch Print patient's
education to print patient help sheets. (See About the patient help sheets for further
detail.) Touch Return to post test to continue with FVC post-test efforts.
11. Touch Done when you have completed the post-tests.
If the Auto Save setting is turned off, touch the Yes button and touch Save to save
the test. Select one of the following locations:
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