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

A spirometry test, also known as a pulmonary function test, is traditionally used to diagnose COPD. It measures lung function through the quantity of air that can be inhaled and exhaled as well as ...

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.

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 ...

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

Existing methods to evaluate lung function such as spirometry are limited by the need ... A 6-minute walk test and the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire ...

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

The main method of diagnosing COPD has been a spirometry test, which measures lung function through the quantity of air that can be inhaled and exhaled, researchers said. Some hospitals now also ...