Over the next 12 weeks Oxford's GPs, practice nurses and pharmacists will pilot N-Tidal technology.
The N-Tidal device has been developed by health technology company TidalSense.
Clinical studies have suggested it can provide over 91% accuracy in diagnosing severe cases from a single breath recording.Dr Ameera Patel, CEO of TidalSense, said they "desperately need to arm primary care doctors with accurate, easy-to-perform tests that enable the early and accurate diagnosis of patients, at the point at which they present with symptoms".
Oxford will lead the technology's nationwide launch, in collaboration with Healthier Oxford City Network, a primary care network with four practices. Dr Helen Ashdown, a GP clinical lecturer at the University of Oxford, said that the technology had "the potential to transform" the diagnosis and management of COPD."Breathing out and trying to empty your chest made you cough, it made you light-headed, it made you feel like you were going to pass out. And it took about 25-30 minutes," she said.
"With this new device, it actually was really pleasant. You just sat there and breathed normally into the machine, so you didn't have to try and push breath out to get the measurements."
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