An Introduction to ADInstruments LabChart

hello and welcome to the first in the tutorial on use of lab chart lab chart prolab chart reader and Microsoft Excel to do data analysis of human physiology

practicals this is a tutorial set designed for both BSC and MSC students we'll start fairly simple and work our way through a number of data files

showing the uses of lab chart and Excel to do some analyses of data so we'll start by just showing you the datasets we're going to be using incidentally I'm

going to be using lab chart 7 Pro which is the fully fledged commercial version of an instrument slab chart you're probably using a lab chart reader which is the free version it's the one that's

available on the pause machines and also the one you can download free from the aliens to its website just to let you know I'm using the pro version just in case any windows pop up that you're not seeing on your machine but this will

allow me to do saving which of course library they cannot do so there'll be some important notes during this about getting your data into a program like Excel in order to do your analyses

offline and without having to sit there at a pause machine with lab chart open for the rest of the week so there's lab trap Pro and I'm using the first the data sets were using is

this data set this is isometric exercise using a handgrip dynamometer this is three sets of data required by the system the first is grip

force which is measured in kilograms and this is the grip force from the from the transducer we've then got blood pressure which comes for a thinner press and

we've got heart rate here which is actually given by the finger press is one of its analogue outputs so this is not a derive variable this is actually from the filler press and you can see it

follows changes in heart rate we're going to be using this to look at data pads to look at some of the binning and some of the offline analyses of data we

also have another data set which is a dynamic exercise data set a little bit more complicated this is from an MSC practical we've got systolic diastolic pressures taken from

phenom etre we've got heart rate which I believe is taken from the phenomena as well yeah we've got carbon monoxide end-tidal and oxygen end titles taken

from a gas analyzer are taken from the mouthpiece we've got oxygen saturation Sao - which is taken from a finger

SATs monitor and then down the bottom here we've got respiratory flow which is taken from a respirator so here's all the numbers we have for this data set

but we'll start with the simple data set looking at the grip test and we'll go on to the next tutorial and looking at navigating round files using these data