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About the patient help sheets

Two patient help sheets are available to print:

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Adult smokers

If Smoke Years is enabled in the FVC report settings, the Smokers' education sheet

option can be printed for adult smokers.

Asthma symptoms

These help sheets print only if patient education is selected. To enable patient education

touch the Print patient's education button after the FVC efforts have been performed.

Touch the checkbox next to Asthma education or Smokers' education.

The patient's name, FEV1% predicted, and date print automatically on both sheets. If

Enable ATS Interpretation is selected, the appropriate recommendation is also marked.

To enable ATS Interpretation, touch the Settings tab. The ECG tab and the vertical ECG

configuration tab appear. Touch the Spirometry tab. The vertical Spirometry

configuration tab appears. Touch the

(Next) button. Touch the checkbox next to the

Enable ATS Interpretive.

Note

If no recommendation is marked, the doctor must mark one.

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Both help sheets come from a booklet entitled Simple Office Spirometry for Primary Care

Practitioners, by Thomas L. Petty, MD, and Paul L. Enright, MD. This booklet can be

downloaded from the National Lung Health Education Program (NLHEP) home page:

http://www.nlhep.org/Pages/Resources.aspx.

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