Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume or forced vital capacity was related to mortality. 185 years later, spirometry is ...

The PACK trial 1 was a parallel-arm cluster randomised trial, assigning 48 clinics to the intervention arm (a training ...

They can then compare your lung function with and without the medication and may interpret the results immediately. Spirometry results help determine: whether you have COPD the type of COPD you ...

Their interpretation was that steroids were ... With the exception of 15 patients who had pulmonary-function studies the patients were assessed clinically and subjectively, and 86 per cent ...

Appropriately interpreting the data requires consideration of the specific ... use of surgery (12.5% of patients), and inclusion regardless of baseline performance status or PFTs, in contrast to RTOG ...

The scheme needed better spirometry testing and interpretation, a better CXR referral process, improved CXR interpretation and reporting using the ILO criteria. Clinical guidelines were needed to ...

The proportion of participants contributing ATS standard spirometry was 285/319 (89.3%) at TB-treatment completion, 292/319 (91.5%) at 1 year, 293/319 (91.8%) at 2 years and 272/301 (90.3%) at the ...

For interpreting health-related QoL changes, the minimally important difference for the PC-QoL is 0.9.25 Prior to leaving the clinic at the completion of the consultation, the parents also score on a ...

In this context, we review the advantages and limitations of routine physiological measurements of respiratory function including spirometry ... Moreover, the interpretation of measurements and ...

All 468 subjects had been provided written informed consent by the first affiliated hospital of Guangzhou Medical University before chest HRCT scans and PFT. The COPD stage is ... providing an ...