Open Spirometry Network

Last week we met with David Van Sickle and David Hubanks of ZMD America, Inc. – which has a Madison office – to discuss the possibility of utilizing one of ZMD’s signal conditioners in the spirometer circuitry. David H drew our attention to one in particular (the 31014), which costs only around $2.
There are numerous [...]

Susan Lampert Smith wrote an article about the spirometry team that appeared on Wednesday in Wisconsin Week, a university publication. Thanks Susan!

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 [...]

The BME students have been working hard for a little more than one month now and are making good progress. Last week, they began testing various differential pressure sensors in simple systems like the one you see here.
They’ve started preparing for their upcoming mid-semester presentation on the project which will take place Friday afternoon. I hope [...]

A team of UW-Madison biomedical engineering students have decided to spend the semster working on the spirometry project for their applied design course.
The four undergraduate students began last week with a trip to the spirometry lab. The team is taking apart old spirometers and doing background research as they develop a preliminary specification.
This is my [...]