Guest guest Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Kathy and Dora, FYI - You don't breath into it, you actually inhale and fill your lungs up. While you inhale you are sucking the air out of the tube and it makes the ball float upwards. in Delaware Lap RNY 3/10/04 261/171/120 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Kathy, Please educate me, what is a incentive spirometer ? Dora in Tennessee Lap/Open RNY 9/20/2004 Vanderbilt Hospital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 > Kathy, > > Please educate me, what is a incentive spirometer ? It is a plastic devise with a tube of sorts that you blow into and it makes the little ball go up. :-) It measures lung capacity. There is a scale on it so that you can see how far you get (not sure what the unit of measure is) and you can track improvement. It is pretty much standard issue after surgery usually. They ask people to breathe into it about 10 times an hour. What this does is fully exercise your lungs so that the changes of post-surgery pnemonia is reduced. My mom had one to use years back after her triple bypass surgery though I didn't know the name of the contraption then. I honestly saw Rich's lung capacity improve alot pre-surgery using it a number of times a day. He was given it when he went for his full days of tests (blood work, chest x-ray, EKG). Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 > FYI - You don't breath into it, you actually inhale and fill your > lungs up. Thanks for the real story! I have allergy induced asthma and have a peak flow meter and that's an exhale thingie. Got them mixed up since I'm not the one using the spirometer. Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Not to worry Dora, I was in the same boat, I¹m sure many of us were. I was honestly more worried about staying overnight in the hospital than the surgery . It all works out and the staff is generally very accommodating (my second staff was accommodating, the first I¹ll reserve comment on). -- Sagel Burns Lap RNY April 9, 2004 (-83 lbs.) 348/265/140 (begin/current/goal) carrie@... - www.carrieburns.net On 9/10/04 9:51 AM, " Dora McCary " wrote: > Kathy, > > Thanks. I am so excited. The nerves only hit when I think about being > in the hospital. I have never been in the hospital and it freaks me out > a little. But I am ready!!! 9 more days!!!! > > Dora in Tennessee > Open/Lap RNY 9/20/04 > Vanderbilt Hospital > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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