On the History of Spiroergometry

Spiroergometry is a diagnostic procedure for the assessment of the performance capacity of the cardiovascular system, respiration, and metabolism. As far as term and content are concerned, spiroergometry includes two components: spirometry and ergometry. The goal of spirometry is the continuous measurement of respiratory gas metabolism and the continuous registration of respiration (spirography). Here, the measurement of oxygen consumption — which is synonymous with oxygen uptake — is much more important than that of CO2 expiration. Ergometry constitutes a method for the exact dose of physical work and its precise reproduction at any time. The history of science shows that, initially, spirometry and ergometry were used sporadically and later more systemically in the experimental arrangements of research scientists. H. W Knipping was the first in the 1920s to unite both elements into a standardized clinical procedure [60, 61]. The following historical overview describes milestones in the joining of ergometry and spirometry.

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