{"id":1532,"date":"2019-08-22T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T03:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/1532"},"modified":"2021-11-22T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:11:17","slug":"1532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/1532","title":{"rendered":"How effective is the bacterial filter for the spirometer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use use a bacterial filter that is manufactured by Microgard. It is designed to capture 99% of all aerosolized bacterial and viral pathogens. It is the same type of filter used in hospitals by respiratory technicians. This filter is used with the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-spirometer\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Spirometer<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-SPR<\/nobr>) and the <a href=\"\/product\/spirometer\/\">Spirometer<\/a> (<nobr>SPR-BTA<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>The PDF below is the specifications sheet released by Microgard for this filter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.vernier.com\/til\/1532\/MicroGard.pdf\">http:\/\/www2.vernier.com\/til\/1532\/MicroGard.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VERNIER PRODUCTS<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/product\/disposable-bacterial-filters-for-spirometer-10-pack\/\">Disposable Bacterial Filters for Spirometer<\/a> (<nobr>SPR-FIL10<\/nobr>) (pkg. of 10)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/product\/disposable-mouthpieces-for-spirometer-30-pack\/\">Disposable Mouthpieces for Spirometer<\/a> (<nobr>SPR-MP30<\/nobr>) (pkg. of 30)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/product\/noseclips-for-spirometer-10-pack\/\">Noseclips for Spirometer<\/a> (<nobr>SPR-NOSE10<\/nobr>) (pkg. of 10)<br \/>\n&#8211;<a href=\"\/product\/spirometer-flow-head\/\">Spirometer Flow Head<\/a> (<nobr>SPR-FLOW<\/nobr>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use use a bacterial filter that is manufactured by Microgard. It is designed to capture 99% of all aerosolized bacterial and viral pathogens. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2106,2108,2107,1734,2105],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-filter","tag-gdx-spr","tag-microgard","tag-spirometer","tag-spr-fil-spr-bta"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}