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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spirometry was performed at baseline and at follow-up ... The combined population attributable fraction for these exposures was 21.0%. Interpretation These results substantially strengthen the ...

Earlier this week, Simms and I made our official Super Bowl LIX picks. (We disagree.) But what about the rest of the PFT operation? Many have asked what the writers think. So I inquired. And here are ...