About VacuMed

We simply guarantee your complete satisfaction.
That means we will do the RIGHT THING, whatever is necessary to make you happy!

Limited Warranty (Hardware)

Some of the products offered by VacuMed are manufactured by or for us, others are simply re-sold by us. For most products, the warranty period is one year. For all items re-sold by us the original manufacturer's warranty shall apply.

Limited Warranty (Software)

Software warranties supplied on request.

What Is Covered:

Defective parts will be replaced or repaired. You will not be charged for the labor required to replace of repair defective parts during the warranty period.

For How Long:

In some cases the labor warranty coverage is shorter than the parts warranty. The warranty period starts on the date of shipment. No warranty claims will be honored after expiration of the warranty period.

What We Will Do:

We will repair or replace all defective parts during the warranty period. We will pay for the labor required if the repair or replacement occurs during the labor warranty period. We will pay for shipping charges of repaired or replaced parts shipped to you.

What We Will Not Do:

1. We will not pay for incidental, special or consequential damages.
2. Pay for lost parts, damages due to Acts of God, accidents, abuse, misuse or misapplication.
3. Pay for damages resulting from alteration or modification of products that were done without our permission.

What You Must Do:

Follow the Claims and Returns Policy below promptly and precisely. Contact us or our authorized dealer or representative immediately. If we determine that the warranty service must be performed at our facility,
then you must ship the defective component or instrument to us, freight pre-paid and fully insured.

State Law Rights:

This warranty gives you specific legal rights. You may also have other rights which vary from state to state.

Claims and Returns Policy

Do not sign a freight receipt without inspecting the shipment.
If the box or container appears damaged, write
"DAMAGED CONTAINER MAY INDICATE CONCEALED DAMAGE"
on receipt as you sign it and have delivery person countersign.
Keep receipt. You must notify the freight carrier within 72 hours with a report of damaged goods.
Keep all packing material, the carrier will want to inspect it. All shortages must be reported to Vacumetrics/Vacumed within 5 working days.

You must call or write us for a Return Authorization Number (RAN). All shipments not having this number prominently displayed may be refused by us. Goods must be returned with freight prepaid and insured for the full value.

Goods should be returned using the lowest reasonable freight method, do not use air-freight unless we request it or you plan to pay for it.

Goods can only be accepted for credit or exchange if you return them within 30 days of our invoice date.

Please provide detailed reason for return and tell us what you want us to do.

The following items will not be accepted for return:
Items specially modified or designed for the customer, opened chemicals, items that were used by patients, "sale" items.

Restocking Fee & Future Credits

Unless an item was specifically ordered for evaluation, or is returned due to our fault, we will charge a 20% restocking charge with a minimum charge of $15.00, plus any charges for missing items, repairs of repackaging.

Customers may take a 10% discount (But not exceeding the actual restocking fee paid) on orders placed within 12 month of incurring any restocking fee (Excluding charges for repair of missing items) until the restocking fee is repaid to the customer.

Example: You paid a $20 restocking fee. Then you place an order for $100.
You may take a 10% discount of $10. You now have another $10 credit that you may use for another order.

Most University testing for athletic purposes only. Prior appointments are necessary!

1.
Dr. Desmond Ebanks
Alternity Healthcare LLC
639 Park Road
West Hartford CT 06107
Tel: 806-748-4064
Click here for Alternity Healthcare web site

2.
Dr. Marc Silberman
NJ Sports Medicine & Performance Center
689 Valley Road
Gillette NJ 07933
Tel: 908-647-06464
New Jersey Sports Med web site

3.Mike Craven
Mechanicsville Fitness Center
aka: Mike's Olympic Gym
7495 Old Hickory Drive
Mechanicsville VA 23111
Tel: 804-543-9293

3.A
Chris Eschbach, PhD
Meredith College
Raleigh, No Carolina
Lab phone: 919-760-8769
Meredith College VO2 testing web site

4.
Out of business, but link still active:
Click here for G2 Health web site

5.

Ohio University
Work Physiology Laboratory
001 Irvine Hall
Athens OH 45701
Tel: (740) 593-2291
FAX: (740) 797 2778
e-mail: hagermaf@ohio.edu

6.
Nathan "Nate" Thomas
Mobile Utah Testing Lab
Salt Lake City UT
Tel: 801-302-9549
FAX: 801-397-2118
Nate@hakenya.com
Hakenya web site

7.

University of Las Vegas
Exercise Physiology Lab
Box 53034 Kinesiology Dept
4505 Mryland Pkwy
Las Vegas NV 89154-3034
Tel: (702) 895-3766
FAX: (702) 895-4191
e-mail: lagolding@aol.com

8.
Ken Nicodemus
Exercise Physiologist / Director
The Fit Stop Human Performance Lab
Tel: (760) 634-5169 Fax: (866) 409-5888
Fit Stop web site

9.
Holden MacRae
Pepperdine University
Dept of Sports Medicine
Malibu CA
Tel: (310) 456-4278
FAX: (310) 317-7270
e-mail: holden.macrae@pepperdine.edu

10.
Susan Ceriale
Wellness & Fitness Institute
University of Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-4000
FAX: (805) 893-7054
e-mail: sceriale@gte.net

11.
Steve DaMassa
Clark Community College
Fitness Testing Lab
1933 Fort Vancouver Way
Vancouver WA 98663
Tel: 360-992-2185
e-mail: sdamassa@clark.edu

12.
Cheryl Pitkin
Central Oregon Community College
Exercise Physiology Lab
2600 NW College Way
Bend OR 97701
Tel: (541) 383-7768
Click here for COCC web site

13.
L. Brilla
Western Washington University
MS-9067
Bellingham WA 98225
Tel: (360) 2861
e-mail: physlab@cc.wwu.edu

14.
Brendan Roach
BodyLab Ltd.
43 Hania St
Wellington, New Zealand
Tel: +644-801-17395
Click here for BodyLab web site
Click on U-tube icon for video

15.
Dr. Marcus Strozberg
Meduna do Esporte
2. Osvaldo, S912
Brasil
Tel: +55-85-266-4132
e-mail: strozberg@secrel.com.br

We have never sold or shared our contact list, customer list or mailing list with anyone. We have no intention of doing so in the future.

If you contact us we may add your name to our mailing list to receive future editions of our catalog, newsletter or other data sheets, unless you request not to be included on any list. You may ask to be removed at any time.

Dec 2004

Leasing is available. Typical lease periods are 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 months with either the 10% purchase option or the $1.00 purchase option.

The 10% purchase option results in a slightly lower payment, but you have to pay 10% of the purchase price to own the equipment at the end of the lease period.

If you select the $1.00 purchase option, you pay $1.00 at the end of the lease period to own the equipment.

To calculate your lease payment using the 10% purchase option, multiply one of the factors below by the equipment cost:

For 12 months: .0844
For 24 months: .0450
For 36 months: .0316
For 48 months: .0250
For 60 months: .0214

To calculate your lease payment using the $1.00 purchase option, multiply one of the factors below by the equipment cost:

For 12 months: .0929
For 24 months: .0490
For 36 months: .0338
For 48 months: .0271
For 60 months: .0227

Example: You want to lease a $20,000 instrument for 36 months using the 10% purchase option:

20,000 x .0316 = 632.00

Your monthly payment will be $ 632.00

Rates subject to change.

We accept American Express, Discover Card, MasterCard & VISA.

Credit cards are charged immediately when orders are placed via our web site. When shipping charges vary from the computer generated charge, we will contact you to authorize adjustment.

For all other orders, we normally do not charge your card until day of shipment, however, on export orders and special order items that must be purchased from our supplier, we will charge your card on the day the item is ordered from our supplier.

Contact us for special requests or split charges to separate cards.

Click here to read more about "Terms"

By: Andrew Huszczuk and John Hoppe

There is no advantage to true BBB measurements, and in fact there are distinct disadvantages!

Early publications about measurement of VO2 and VCO2 date back to the early 1900's, with collection of exhaled gases in bags.

Then in the 1930's Douglas used gas collection bags during his expedition to the Andes; the resulting publicity credited him with the term "Douglas Bag". The collected gases were subsequently analyzed and their volume measured.

Douglas bag and mixing chambers measurements using discrete gas analyzers were the standard until computers made on-line measurements with mixing chambers relatively easy.

In the late 1960's, Beaver and Wasserman of Harbor-UCLA developed the first Breath-by-breath (BBB) measurement system and later with Brian Whipp became the gurus and advocates of BBB measurements. It was hoped that the intra-breath information of BBB measurements would yield information about the dynamics of muscle O2 uptake.

With the strong influence of the Harbor-UCLA team on purchasing decisions of new customers, many instrument manufacturers were eager to follow what was thought to be the future trend in VO2 measurements. However, the promise of measurement of muscle dynamics using BBB measurements failed totally.

Today, there is almost total consensus among experts in the field of VO2 measurements that there is not a single advantage to BBB measurements, and in fact definite disadvantages due to much more noisy data and unavoidable measurement errors at both very low and high ventilation rates*.

Copyright (C) 2008 Vacumetrics Inc

* See also "Breath-by-Breath (BBB) vs. "True Breath by Breath"
on VacuMed.com (Dr. Andrew's Corner)

5 June 2008