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Clinical excellence at a very affordable price |
| The TransAir has been thoughtfully engineered to make the most of strength,
serviceability and size. It is particularly well suited to small office
locations or applications requiring frequent transport. It is designed to
provide long service with minimal maintenance cost! Service and routine
component replacement are minimal. Mounted on a multi-positional support arm,
the single valve assembly easily adjusts to any comfortable height. |
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| The valve to beat all valves |
The ergonomic and efficient TransAir valve assembly is the very model of design
excellence. Pneumatic operation ensures faultless performance over years of
testing. The entire assembly can be disassembled in less than a minute for cold
sterilization. However, in recent epidemiological studies using viral filters,
it was proven that these valves required no attention at all even after
thousands of operations. |
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Results in half the time |
| A complete series of pulmonary function tests including Flow Volume Loops,
Slow Vital Capacity, Lung Volumes and Single Breath Diffusion can be completed
in 15 to 18 minutes. The Total Lung Capacity is measured at the same time as
Single Breath Diffusion thus saving all the time usually required for
multibreath dilutional methods. Moisture and carbon dioxide reagents can be
replenished by the user when necessary, rather than the expensive practice of
being required to use proprietary pre-packaged containers. |
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| N2 Dilution Theory |
Nitrogen recovery is a gas dilution technique for measuring lung volumes. Since
N2 is resident in the lung at all times, it has an infinite time to reach
whatever communicating airways it can. During the performance of DLCO, the
subject exhales to residual volume (all the way empty) and then breathes-in
diffusion gas until completely full (TLC). The new N2 from the DLCO mixture
rapidly mixes with the N2 that was in the residual volume and thus TLC can be
directly measured. The technique assumes the partial pressure of CO2 in the
alveoli at the start of the test. Using Dalton's Law of partial pressures, the
CO2 can be corrected by the software, or alternatively, a separate measure of
PACO2 (alveolar CO2) can improve accuracy on patients with COPD. |
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| Simplicity of Use |
The TransAir is perhaps the most complete, yet simple to operate, pulmonary
system on the market today. Typically, technicians are able to complete full
testing with as little as 1 hour of instruction. The ComPAS Freedom™ software provides a beautifully illustrated HTML Help Manual and background
information on the physiology and scientific techniques employed in pulmonary
function testing. All tests are detailed with pictorial guides and routine
maintenance and service help is also included. The TransAir is very popular with
users. Not only is it small and user-friendly, it is a reliable troublefree
partner in patient testing. |
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| TransAir features: |
Low per-patient testing cost
- Small footprint and easy portability
- Superb durability and reliability
- Simple user performed maintenance
- Single patient connection for all tests
- Maintenence free valve
- Single gas cylinder and low gas consumption for all tests
- User friendly software helps complete tests in less time
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