The RTube™ handheld disposable Exhaled Breath Condensate collector is easy to use in the home, workplace, school, pulmonary function testing laboratory, intensive care unit, clinic, or in field and school studies. Some of the many benefits you will enjoy as an academic researcher are listed below:

1. Study patients with COPD, Asthma, SARS, ARDS, acute lung injury, the common cold, influenza and many other respiratory and systemic disease processes.
2. Save time by collecting samples from dozens of patients simultaneously in any group setting
3. Simple, reliable system avoids unexpected downtime associated with more complex devices.
4. Single-use disposable device eliminates the risk of infectious cross-contamination present in other devices.
5. Institutional Review Boards rarely provide roadblocks for protocol implementation because Exhaled Breath Condensate is such an inherently safe method of sample collection.
6. Low-cost starter kit has everything you need to get 25 EBC samples putting you on the fast track to publication. But the lightweight supplies are readily expandable to allow rapid collection, transport, storage, and assay of thousands of subjects as needed.

Important note to researchers: EBC pH is a particularly important measurement in EBC. Measurement of EBC pH is relatively simple. EBC pH is unequivocally in the range of available assay methods. EBC pH is not affected by the duration or temperature of sample storage, nor most other potential technical concerns, making EBC pH a particularly friendly and useful marker of airway/lung disease. EBC collected for pH assays is particularly easy to collect, easy to ship, easy to store and easy to assay. Most importantly, EBC pH reflects acidification of airway lining fluid, a key component of airway inflammation and oxidant stress, and a wonderful marker of acid reflux and aspiration. For more information about the excitement surrounding EBC pH testing, be sure to see our online library which has extensive discussions about EBC pH.