Determining Your Pef Baseline Value - MIR Smart One Bedienungsanleitung

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CAUTION: WHEN SMART ONE IS USED TO MONITOR LUNG CONDITIONS SUCH AS ASTHMA YOU
SHOULD BE UNDER THE CARE OF A PHYSICIAN OR OTHER LICENSED HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL.
Medical studies have shown that regularly reviewing accurate measurements of PEF and FEV1
with a physician or other licensed healthcare professional may allow individuals with lung disease
to better manage their conditions.
It is important to watch for changes from one measuring to the next, and to follow the actions you
have to take according to the action plan provided to you by your physician or other licensed
healthcare professional.
If you have breathing conditions such as asthma your physician or licensed healthcare professional
may recommend that you measure PEF/FEV1 to watch your disease and discover if there are
changes in your airflow. When you blow into the mouthpiece of the flow meter, the device will
display a number. The faster you blow, the higher the reading.
This number tells you how well air is moving through the airways in your lungs. When you use
SMART ONE regularly, you will be able to detect changes in your measurements, which will tell you
and your physician or other licensed healthcare professional what is happening with your lungs.
These changes may require special treatment of your condition according to the action plan given
to you by your physician or licensed healthcare professional which will tell you when and how
often to use your SMART ONE meter. They also will explain how your PEF and FEV1 measurements
help them monitor your lung function and how well treatments are working.
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DETERMINING YOUR PEF BASELINE VALUE

A PEF measure with a high value usually means that your airflow is good.
The best way to determine what is a healthy PEF for you is to discuss this with your physician or
other licensed healthcare professional. In fact the importance of any changes in airflow from one
measuring to the next depends upon how much they are different from your baseline value you
should reach when you are in healthy physical condition.
Your physician or other licensed healthcare professional will use one of two possible ways to
identify your baseline value. The first method adopts the predicted value calculated according to
the results of epidemiological studies of large groups of healthy subjects of your same age, height,
sex, and origin. The second method adopts the personal best value you can reach when you are in
the healthiest physical condition.
The MIR SMART ONE app can calculate the PEF predicted value, i.e. the expected value for healthy
people, depending on age, height, sex, and origin. MIR SMART ONE app calculate the PEF predicted
value that has been endorsed by ATS (American Thoracic Society): PEF predicted values are
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