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Chest, Vol 89, 840-845, Copyright © 1986 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Importance of breath size in calibrating the respiratory inductive plethysmograph

RP Millman, DC Chung and ET Shore

The usual method of calibrating the respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) is to have the subject breathe over a rather narrow volume range, either resting tidal volume or into a bag containing a fixed larger volume, in both the standing and supine positions. During a previous study in our laboratory using the RIP to quantify ventilation during sleep in young and elderly adults, we began to observe that the accuracy of the RIP measurements could be improved if we calibrated using a wider range of tidal volumes which encompassed the smaller breath sizes we were measuring during sleep. We therefore decided to investigate whether the size of the breaths used for calibrating the RIP was indeed important in improving the accuracy of the device. Eight healthy, nonsmoking young adult men participated in the study. Three sets of calibration factors for the RIP were determined based on low (300 to 500 ml), normal (500 to 800 ml) and high tidal volume (over 800 ml) breaths. Each of these sets of calibration factors were then used to validate three different sets of supine tidal volumes (low, normal, high). For all volumes tested, the RIP values most closely approximated the spirometric volumes when the calibration breaths and validation breaths were of the same size.


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