Lab 01 iWorx Pulse Tutorial

Which channel was the plethysmographer plugged into on the IWX-214 unit?

Channel 3

Name two things that plugged into the BACK of the IWX-214 unit. Follow all instructions.

PT - 104
USB Cable

On the Labscribe data collection window, name the channels and their units that appear when the tutorial experiment has been selected.

Pulse= Volt
Heart Rate= BPM

Describe the placement of the plethysmographer on the subject.

Volar surface ( where finger prints are located) of the distal segment of the middle finger.

1.     Oh no! Your pulse waves appear to be upside down! Describe how to fix that.

Invert function.

How do you get your pulse waves to perfectly fit the channel window (without using zoom in or out)?

Autoscale

1.     What do you do?

a.     You want to view more peaks in your display (without using ‘zoom’).
b.     You want to view fewer peaks in your display (without using ‘zoom’)
c.     You want your peaks to appear shorter.
d. You want your peaks to appear taller.

a. Double display
b. Half display
c. zoom in
d. zoom out

You have mastered the art of creating marks, but looking at your data later, you find something interesting. Can you add a mark after the fact? How is this done?

drag the cursor to area of interest and put a text cursor in the mark box and compose comment

You had that one really cool mark. How do you go to it

Marks window, then marks

1.     Answer the following questions regarding the data window below (include units):

a.     What is the display time? _________________

b.     What is the name of the mark that you see? _______________________

c.     What are the cursors measuring? __________________________________________

d.     What is the measurement of that value? (e.g. actual number with units) _______________

e. Uh oh. You want to measure HR, but there is no value. Describe the steps you would take to get the HR measurement and circle the location on the picture below where the measurement would appear.

a. 12.00 sec
b. solid, yo
c. time between peaks
d. 775 msec
e. Click the single cursor button. Drag the cursor to the plateau on the HR channel. V2-V1 = 0.000 bpm