Talk:Incentive spirometer

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I've never understood why these are called incentive spirometers. What's the incentive? It's not like the nurse is going to give you a reward if your performance is good. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The incentive is the ability to breathe more easily. The incentive therefore is to avoid the feeling of suffocation. The reward, or treat, is to live normally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Atlchristopher (talk • contribs) 19:37, 5 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems like this one gets its name due to the inclusion of a mark to show a goal, as opposed to a just plain spirometer which is just a measuring device. --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 12:51, 9 May 2012 (UTC)