Cleveland Family Study
12.6 Acquiring Data
- Using the left/right arrow keys, highlight Acquire on the screen.
- Select the appropriate 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th trial windows with the up/down keys.
- Prepare the rhinometer by securing the rubber nosepiece to the end of the rhinometer tube.
- Place the rhinometer under the nostril of the subject. The nosepiece should be touching the base of the nostril close enough to ensure a good seal, but not pushing into the nostril, which will distort the shape of the nasal, distorting results.
- Inform the subject to stop breathing and to hold very still for a few seconds while you run the test.
Note: Additional instructions may be required for some participants to understand the difference between ‘stopped breathing’ and taking a large breath and holding it, which will distort results.
- With the nosepiece in place under the nostril, and the subject not breathing, press either Enter or the Start/Stop button on the rhinometer. When a series of clicks is heard, the rhinometer has taken a measurement of the nasal cavity.
- Hit the Start/Stop button any time after hearing a beep to stop the trial. The beep indicates that there has been the minimum number of trials taken to produce a graph. When the beep is heard, there is also a large dot appearing in the upper right hand corner of the screen.
- Test the same nostril again.
- Repeat this procedure for the other nostril, so that you have two trials for each side of the nose.
- When 2 reproducible trials have been taken for each nostril, save the file.
12.6.1 Administering Decongestant to the Participant
Effective 8/16/2002: The GCRC nursing staff was charged with the administration of the Neosynepherine to the participants.
A new dropper will be used with each participant.
- Fill a dropper with approximately 1/3 of Neosynephrine.
- Have a tissue in one hand and the dropper in the other.
- Have the participant tilt their head back as far as they can.
- Do not insert the dropper into the nostril. Instead, hold dropper above nostril.
- Instruct participant to inhale deeply as you drop 1 drop into the nostril. If participant has difficulty inhaling the decongestant, nurse will press the opposite nostril closed as the participant inhales.
- Repeat for a total of 2 drops per nostril.
- The neosynephrine should be allowed to take effect for approximately 5 to 10 minutes.
- Repeat the above ‘Acquiring Data’ procedure to obtain another pair of trials for each nostril.
- Save file.