The NLHEP recommends the widespread use of spirometry by PCPs for detecting COPD in adult smokers and describes a new type of spirometer for this purpose: the office spirometer. The value of ...

You don't have that level of awareness as it relates to properly diagnosing COPD — we don't talk about spirometry,” says Becky Anderson, manager of Respiratory Care Services at Sanford Medical ...

Additional areas requiring research include the role of office spirometry in lower risk individuals (ie, nonsmokers, former smokers, and those without respiratory symptoms) and the prospective ...

Spirometry measures lung volume—how much and how quickly you can blow air out of your lungs. The spirometer measures and ...

The following is a summary of "Respiratory abnormalities in sarcoidosis: physiopathology and early diagnosis using ...

the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) introduced a new category called “Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry (PRISm),” a subtype of Pre-COPD. According to the GOLD ...

Over half of ICSs do not have enough spirometry testing capacity to meet demand, according to new research by a lung health charity.

Here's how respiratory physiotherapy can help overcome shortness of breath post COVID-19. Spirometer: Here's How To Use It The Right Way To Strengthen Lungs Amid Covid-19 We all know that Covid-19 ...

Those most likely to have asthma or COPD also took a spirometry breathing test -- the gold standard for diagnosing either condition. A total of 595 people received a diagnosis of asthma or COPD ...

Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had increases, ...