Portable Spirometry (PFT) for Occupational Health Services
Spirometry can play an important role in the pre-placement and fit-for-duty examination, especially when respirator equipment may need to be used by the employee (primary prevention). Repeated spirometric testing often is used for surveillance of workers at risk of developing occupational lung disease (secondary prevention). Finally, spirometry can be used to actually measure and track patients with lung disease, whether related to the workplace or non-occupational diseases (tertiary prevention).
We have state-of-the-art portable spirometers that are easily transported to the job site. It only takes a few minutes to administer a Pulmonary Function Test (PFT). After the medical data is collected, it is reviewed by one of our team members. The clearance letter, signed by the physician, is then made available to the employer.
Portable spirometry can help you do that in more ways than one.
First of all, portable spirometry allows your patients to come to you for an office visit and testing instead of a hospital or large test center where they are more likely to come in contact with other patients with various communicable illnesses like COVID-19 and the flu. As a result, portable testing significantly reduces the likelihood that your patients with a compromised respiratory or immune system will come into contact with a contagion as they might in a hospital or large test center.
Secondly, the ability to conduct spirometry testing in your office or mobile clinic ensures that as a healthcare provider, you’re able to monitor your patients’ respiratory function during acute and post COVID on the spot. You’re also able to quickly identify patients who have developed long-COVID and begin treatment immediately.Portable Spirometry (Gallery)
