spirometers

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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  - the current GLI standard cannot be used if you select asthma as the lung condition in which case it only allows outdated prediction equations (USA (NHANES), SBPT, ECSC, Knudson)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

amongst the least expensive are the very light, compact PC-based spirometers such as:
- MIR MiniSpir 2 at $AU999 excl. gst but includes 60 free turbine mouthpieces