COSMED is a privately held, international,

medical technology Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

corporation specialized in

Metabolic Metabolism (, from el, μεταβολή ''metabolē'', "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cell ...

and Cardio Pulmonary

diagnostic test A medical test is a medical procedure performed to detect, diagnose, or monitor diseases, disease processes, susceptibility, or to determine a course of treatment. Medical tests such as, physical and visual exams, diagnostic imaging, genetic ...

ing equipment aimed for either professional or medical use in different application fields (

Hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

Sports Science Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sport and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally inc ...

Health care Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...

Professional sports In professional sports, as opposed to amateur sports, participants receive payment for their performance. Professionalism in sport has come to the fore through a combination of developments. Mass media and increased leisure have brought larg ...

and Wellness).

History

Founded in 1980 and based in Rome, Italy, COSMED started manufacturing portable

spirometer A spirometer is an apparatus for measuring the volume of air inspired and expired by the lungs. A spirometer measures ventilation, the movement of air into and out of the lungs. The spirogram will identify two different types of abnormal ventilat ...

s and

pulmonary function testing Pulmonary function testing (PFT) is a complete evaluation of the respiratory system including patient history, physical examinations, and tests of pulmonary function. The primary purpose of pulmonary function testing is to identify the severity ...

equipment. In the nineties, the company introduced new systems for

gas exchange Gas exchange is the physical process by which gases move passively by Diffusion#Diffusion vs. bulk flow, diffusion across a surface. For example, this surface might be the air/water interface of a water body, the surface of a gas bubble in a liqui ...

measurements and patented the first portable system with telemetric data transmission for the measurement of

metabolic Metabolism (, from el, μεταβολή ''metabolē'', "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms. The three main functions of metabolism are: the conversion of the energy in food to energy available to run cell ...

parameters during field-testing. "Google Patents - Portable system with telemetric data transmission for the measurement of metabolic parameters" https://patents.google.com/patent/US6206837/en?oq=cosmed During early 2000 COSMED started to expand international business incorporating subsidiaries and registered offices in several countries (USA, China, Germany, UK). In 2011, COSMED USA, Inc. completed the acquisition of US company Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI),"COSMED Announces Acquisition Of Life Measurement, Inc. (LMI)" http://www.i-newswire.com/cosmed-announces-acquisition-of/87124 a provider of

body composition In physical fitness, body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone, water, and muscle in human bodies. Because muscular tissue takes up less space in the body than fat tissue, body composition, as well as weight, determines ...

assessment equipment based on

Air Displacement Plethysmography Air displacement plethysmography (ADP, also known as whole-body air displacement plethysmography) is a recognized and scientifically validated densitometric method to measure human body composition. ADP is based on the same principles as the gold ...

technology.

Products

COSMED manufactures a full range of

Pulmonary Function Test Pulmonary function testing (PFT) is a complete evaluation of the respiratory system including patient history, physical examinations, and tests of pulmonary function. The primary purpose of pulmonary function testing is to identify the severity ...

(PFT), Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Test (CPET), and

Indirect Calorimetry Indirect calorimetry calculates heat that living organisms produce by measuring either their production of carbon dioxide and nitrogen waste (frequently ammonia in aquatic organisms, or urea in terrestrial ones), or from their consumption of oxyg ...

diagnostic equipment. Since 2011, with the acquisition of Life Measurement Inc. (LMI), COSMED also manufactures

assessment equipment for infants, children and adults. COSMED main brands include: BOD POD, PEA POD, K4b2, K5, Fitmate, Quark RMR, Quark CPET, Quark PFT, Q-NRG, Pony FX, microQuark, Spiropalm, OMNIA.

Appearances

COSMED products were selected to outfit the physiology assessment laboratory in the 23rd James Bond film

Skyfall ''Skyfall'' is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the villai ...

. COSMED products were used on-screen by the

MI6 The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...

medical staff to assess James Bond’s cardio respiratory performance and fitness level."James Bond Lifestyle - COSMED Fitness Equipment http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/cosmed-fitness-equipment

Awards

COSMED product Spiropalm 6MWT handheld spirometer won the 2013 Product of Outstanding Interest (POINT) Award from the

European Respiratory Society The European Respiratory Society, or ERS, is a non-profit organization with offices in Lausanne, Brussels and Sheffield. It was founded in 1990 in the field of respiratory medicine. The organization was formed with the merger of the Societas Euro ...

(ERS) during the ERS Congress in Barcelona (Spain).“WINNERS of ERS Product of Outstanding Interest 2013” http://www.ersbuyersguide.org/2012-10-03-09-57-17/awards/award-winners-2013 The Q-NRG, a portable indirect calorimeter, won the iF Design Award for 2021 in the Medicine/Health category.

References

External links

COSMED Official Web Site

BOD POD Official Page
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