Your healthcare provider will consider your symptoms to determine which tests to order. Spirometry measures lung volume—how ...

Allergists and pulmonary specialists shall be excluded. Staff who report that they have personally performed > 100 spirometry tests during the previous 5 years shall be excluded. PCPs who have ...

Early antiretroviral therapy in children with perinatal HIV alleviated HIV-related lung function abnormalities and ...

Spirometry measures how well a person’s lungs are working. Source: Juice Flair / Shutterstock A lung function test, also called spirometry, measures how well a person’s lungs are working.

Spirometry tests are commonly used to help diagnose lung conditions, like asthma and COPD, by measuring the amount of air someone can breathe out in one forced breath. This is done with a device ...

Existing methods to evaluate lung function such as spirometry are limited by the need to perform forced exhalations ... full-term children with healthy lungs were utilized to enable effective ...

At this stage, the respiratory therapist will teach you deep breathing exercises and ask you to perform incentive spirometry to help expand the newly transplanted lung(s). Your central venous ...

While millions of people live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), many don’t realize they have it until it ...

Preterm infants are vulnerable to pulmonary dysfunction and other respiratory disorders. While impulse oscillometry (IOS) is ...