Incentive spirometers are the standard of care for preventing postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) and are given to approximately 40 million patients per year. Since the 1980s, incentive spirometers have remained crude breathing devices that provide no quantitative information regarding the frequency and performance of patient usage resulting in poor patient compliance and high complications.
InSpiro transforms the current mechanical embodiment into an electronic device to allow clinicians to identify non-compliant patients and provide them with extra motivation to follow the therapeutic regimen.
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