spirometers

see also:

  • medical devices including spirometers MUST have TGA approval for legal use on patients
    • there are many online devices available which do not have TGA approval which presumably could only be used for personal use at own risk
    • for example, Contec SP70B:
      • only costs about $160 but the syringe to calibrate it costs about $800 which consumers will not be buying and they are unlikely to take it to distributor for annual calibrations
      • gives a major error with PEFR% in the summary but the actual data appears reasonably correct within the limitations of the device
      • the volume vs time chart shows incorrect volumes on teh display but correct ones on pdf output
      • the current GLI standard cannot be used if you select asthma as the lung condition in which case it only allows outdated prediction equations (USA (NHANES), SBPT, ECSC, Knudson)
      • but it can Bluetooth output to smartphone app for saving the PDFs and also for entering your personal data such as height, age
      • hence would not be approved by TGA as does not comply with their essential principles in particular accuracy

TGA approved spirometers