Open Spirometry Network

This week BMC Pulmonary Medicine published an important article highlighting lack of access to spirometers in Nigeria.
In the survey of more than 300 hospital-based physicians, only one quarter of the surveyed physicians report access to a spirometer; in addition, physicians also highlighted their lack of training in use and interpretation of spirometry.
While the authors suggest [...]

I just took a minute to read through the Wikipedia page on spirometry. It needs some attention and references, if anyone has spare time to contribute.
Of course, please don’t forget to add to our wiki as well.

Spirometry is effort dependent and skills such as understanding, attention, coordination, and cooperation with the person administering the test are required for accurate measurements. To help instruct and coach kids during spirometry, incentive screens have been designed to visually motivate their best effort and to encourage consistency from one measurement to the next. Often they [...]

 
One of the most fun and challenging parts of this project is trying to build creative solutions to problems that are inefficiently solved today by commercial markets – in other words, solutions rooted in a different ethic that presume an abundance of funds.
In the case of the spirometer, nowhere is this more apparent than with the [...]