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I-neb Insight Online

Robyn has been using the I-neb for about 6 years now to neb various medicines including Pulmozyme, Tobi & Promixin. One of the features of the I-neb is that the hospital could download data from it to monitor the treatments to make sure the correct dosage is being administered, but they could only do this when you attended clinic in Sheffield, which for us is probably only 1 or 2 times a year.

Phillips Respironics have now developed the software to allow the patient to download the data to your own laptop and then upload that data to a website that the hospital and themselves can access. You can do this as often as you like, we will probably do it every 2 weeks. I guess during times that PFT's are down they will probably want the data more regularly. 

The above photo is of the treatment view tab and shows I-neb use, nebulization time and daily nebulizations both in graph form and also as a %. So no way of hiding missed treatments from your CF team!

This second photo is of the Devices View tab. In this view it basically shows mesh performance, Inhalation time and rest time. Philips monitor the mesh performance and can see when and if the mesh needs changing which is good especially with using Tobi through the neb that is sticky. The other 2 graphs that show Inhalation and rest times can help highlight potential oncoming infections, i.e. If the Inhalation time comes down and the rest time goes up.

The first download is scheduled for tomorrow and it will be interesting to see the results.