Competency information
Details
Prepare the environment, equipment and patient for investigations to include:
- spirometry
- lung volumes
- gas transfer
- overnight oximetry
- limited multichannel sleep studies.
Considerations
- Requirements for the investigation environment to ensure the patient’s privacy, dignity and comfort, to facilitate investigation procedure and maximise results.
- How to check, calibrate and prepare equipment and devices.
- Correct configuration of recording systems.
- Correct positioning of the patient to ensure comfort and co-operation.
- The importance of explaining the procedure to the patient and the impact of incorrect positioning or non-co-operation on investigation results.
- How to identify potential special needs of patients and the relevant action required.
- Range of equipment used, relative merits and principles of measurement.
- Recognition of the errors or potential risks of using defective equipment in clinical practice and the implications of use.
- Identification of common faults and remedial action.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Perform, analyse and develop skills in the interpretation of routine spirometry in patients referred for routine investigation. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform, analyse and develop skills in the interpretation of the measurement of lung volumes in patients referred for routine investigation. |
| # 3 | Outcome Perform, analyse and develop skills in the interpretation of the measurement of gas transfer. |
| # 4 | Outcome Perform, analyse and develop skills in the interpretation of overnight oximetry studies. |
| # 5 | Outcome Perform a limited multichannel sleep study. |