Spirometry - Pulmonary Function Testing

Spirometry  is the most common of the pulmonary function tests (PFTs). Spirometry  test is used to diagnose asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and certain other conditions that affect breathing. Spirometry may also be used periodically to check how well your lungs are working once you're being treated for a chronic lung condition.

Spirometry
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Spirometry and Related Tests
http://faculty.mdc.edu

Spirometry & Related Testing Equipment
http://faculty.mdc.edu

Office Spirometry
Maria V. Gibson, MD, PhD
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu

The Respiratory System & Spirometry
http://www.apsu.edu

The Respiratory System & Ventilation
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Pulmonary Function Testing - Clinical Physiology
Peter Krumpe, MD
http://www.medicine.nevada.edu

Spirometry: How to Perform a Pulmonary Function Test (PFT)
http://homepage.smc.edu

Pulmonary Function Testing
Scott H. Donaldson, MD
http://www.med.unc.edu

Pulmonary Functions
http://www.midlandstech.edu

Pulmonary Function Tests Measuring the Capacity for Life
Esmeralda E. Morales, MD
http://uappc.peds.arizona.edu

Pulmonary Function Testing - Let’s catch our breath
Eddie Needham, MD, FAAFP
http://www.fpm.emory.edu

Outpatient Management of Asthma
Margo Vener, MD, MPH
http://sfghdean.ucsf.edu/

Pulmonary Function Testing - Specialized Test Regimens
http://web.carteret.edu

Report Interpretation  -Spirometry
http://faculty.mdc.edu

Identifying Patients’ Lung Defects Using Midflow Time
http://www.stat.cmu.edu

Evaluation of a Nursing Educational Intervention on the
Proper Technique for Incentive Spirometry in Post-operative and Trauma Critical Care Patients
Sara Couch, Laura Dibsie,
http://nursing.sdsu.edu

Pulmonary Function Testing
http://www.midlandstech.edu


105 free full text access published articles

1. Contrasting diagnosis performance of forced oscillation and spirometry in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and respiratory symptoms.
2. Systemic inflammation in 222.841 healthy employed smokers and nonsmokers: white blood cell count and relationship to spirometry.
3. The effect of obesity on spirometry tests among healthy non-smoking adults.
4. Can optimal use of spirometry have a positive impact on the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
5. Local incentive spirometry improves peak expiratory flow rate in teenage sickle cell anaemia patients: a randomized pilot trial.
6. A study of the use of impulse oscillometry in the evaluation of children with asthma: analysis of lung parameters, order effect, and utility compared with spirometry.
7. Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or both? Diagnostic labeling and spirometry in primary care patients aged 40 years or more.
8. Severity of COPD at initial spirometry-confirmed diagnosis: data from medical charts and administrative claims.
9. Effectiveness of a structured motivational intervention including smoking cessation advice and spirometry information in the primary care setting: the ESPITAP study.
10. Spirometry for patients in hospital and one month after admission with an acute exacerbation of COPD.
11. Spirometry in primary care for case finding and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease primary care diagnostic technology update.
12. Limitations of a spirometry interpretation algorithm.
13. New spirometry interpretation algorithm: Primary Care Respiratory Alliance of Canada approach.
14. Spirometry interpretation in primary care.
15. Use of spirometry and recording of smoking habits of COPD patients increased in primary health care during national COPD programme.
16. Using spirometry to rule out restriction in patients with concomitant low forced vital capacity and obstructive pattern.
17. Effect of e-learning and repeated performance feedback on spirometry test quality in family practice: a cluster trial.
18. Determinants of spirometry use and accuracy of COPD diagnosis in primary care.
19. Why is spirometry underused in the diagnosis of the breathless patient: a qualitative study.
20. Identifying adults at risk of COPD who need confirmatory spirometry in primary care: Do symptom-based questions help?
21. Spirometry use: detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the primary care setting.
22. Forced oscillation technique in the detection of smoking-induced respiratory alterations: diagnostic accuracy and comparison with spirometry.
23. The efficacy of spirometry as a screening tool in detection of air flow obstruction.
24. The relationship of the bronchodilator response phenotype to poor asthma control in children with normal spirometry.
25. Redefining spirometry hesitating start criteria based on the ratio of extrapolated volume to timed FEVs.
26. Spirometry Longitudinal Data Analysis Software (SPIROLA) for Analysis of Spirometry Data in Workplace Prevention or COPD Treatment.
27. Clinically useful spirometry in preschool-aged children: evaluation of the 2007 American Thoracic Society Guidelines.
28. Elongated uvula and diagnostic utility of spirometry in upper airway obstruction.
29. Impact of spirometry feedback and brief motivational counseling on long-term smoking outcomes: a comparison of smokers with and without lung impairment.
30. Technical note: development of a tidal volume surrogate that replaces spirometry for physiological breathing monitoring in 4D CT.
31. Must family physicians use spirometry in managing asthma patients?: NO.
32. Must family physicians use spirometry in managing asthma patients?: YES.
33. 137Cesium exposure and spirometry measures in Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear incident.
34. Spirometry guidelines influence lung function results in a longitudinal study of young adults.
35. Evaluation of current knowledge, awareness and practice of spirometry among hospital -based Nigerian doctors.
36. Comprehensive integrated spirometry using raised volume passive and forced expirations and multiple-breath nitrogen washout in infants.
37. Quality of routine spirometry tests in Dutch general practices.
38. Severity staging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: differences in pre- and post-bronchodilator spirometry.
39. Performance of American Thoracic Society-recommended spirometry reference values in a multiethnic sample of adults: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA) lung study.
40. Diagnostic accuracy of spirometry in primary care.
41. Using arm span to derive height: impact of three estimates of height on interpretation of spirometry.
42. The UK Quality and Outcomes Framework pay-for-performance scheme and spirometry: rewarding quality or just quantity? A cross-sectional study in Rotherham, UK.
43. Comparison of spirometry criteria for the diagnosis of COPD: results from the BOLD study.
44. Spirometry in primary care practices.
45. The use of spirometry in a primary care setting.
46. Age- and size-related reference ranges: a case study of spirometry through childhood and adulthood.
47. The influence of living near roadways on spirometry and exhaled nitric oxide in elementary schoolchildren.
48. High prevalence of emphysema and its association with BMI: a study of smokers with normal spirometry.
49. Electronic feedback messages for home spirometry lung transplant recipients.
50. Knowledge and practice of spirometry among pediatricians in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
51. COPD diagnosis related to different guidelines and spirometry techniques.
52. Reference ranges for spirometry across all ages: a new approach.
53. Contributions of signal analysis to the interpretation of spirometry.
54. Asthma symptoms do not predict spirometry.
55. Primary care spirometry: test quality and the feasibility and usefulness of specialist reporting.
56. Assessing the efficacy of spirometry for smoking cessation.
57. [Whither spirometry?].
58. Can access to spirometry in asthma education centres influence the referral rate by primary physicians for education?
59. Spirometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
60. Variability of spirometry in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from two clinical trials.
61. Methacholine bronchial provocation measured by spirometry versus wheeze detection in preschool children.
62. Altered thoracic gas compression contributes to improvement in spirometry with lung volume reduction surgery.
63. A comparison of plethysmography, spirometry and oscillometry for assessing the pulmonary effects of inhaled ipratropium bromide in healthy subjects and patients with asthma.
64. Incentive spirometry as a means to score breathlessness.
65. Spirometry testing standards in spinal cord injury.
66. Study of spirometry and airway reactivity in patients on disulfirm for treatment of alcoholism.
67. Effect of bacterial filters on spirometry measurements.
68. Smoking cessation: effects on symptoms, spirometry and future trends in COPD.
69. Respiratory symptoms, asthma, exercise test spirometry, and atopy in schoolchildren from a Lima shanty town.
70. The quality of home spirometry in school children with asthma.
71. Spirometry in primary care.
72. Can combined defects be diagnosed on spirometry alone?
73. Hospital doctors' assessment of baseline spirometry.
74. Most practices would use open access spirometry in hospitals.
75. Controversies in spirometry.
76. Controversies in spirometry.
77. Spirometry in general practice.
78. Spirometry utilization in Ontario: practice patterns and policy implications.
79. Spirometry in general practice: the performance of practice assistants scored by lung function technicians.
80. Prevention of cross infection during outpatient spirometry.
81. Do asthmatic patients correctly record home spirometry measurements?
82. Survey of construction workers repeatedly exposed to chlorine over a three to six month period in a pulpmill: II. Follow up of affected workers by questionnaire, spirometry, and assessment of bronchial responsiveness 18 to 24 months after exposure ended.
83. Lung function in white children aged 4 to 19 years: I--Spirometry.
84. Forced oscillation technique and spirometry in cold air provocation tests.
85. Lung function abnormalities and decline of spirometry in scleroderma: an overrated danger?
86. Spirometry in general practice.
87. Open access to spirometry with chest x-ray.
88. Spirometry in healthy elderly Chinese.
89. Quantitative assessment of the value of spirometry.
90. Temperature corrections in routine spirometry.
91. Prediction of postoperative respiratory complications by simple spirometry.
92. Spirometry in healthy men: a correlation with smoking and with mild symptoms.
93. Digital incremental techniques applied to spirometry.
94. Spirometry in the evaluation of pulmonary function.
95. Positive screening spirometry and follow-up in a specified population.
96. Proceedings: Device for cycle-by-cycle spirometry, applied to the continuous recording of air overflow.
97. Comparison of effect of salbutamol and isoprenaline on spirometry and blood-gas tensions in bronchial asthma.
98. Effect of salbutamol on spirometry and blood-gas tensions in bronchial asthma.
99. Impedance spirometry in clinical monitoring.
100. Spirometry Versus Radiography in the Diagnosis of Emphysema.
101. Spirometry Versus Radiography in the Diagnosis of Emphysema.
102. Spirometry versus radiography in the diagnosis of emphysema.
103. Spirometry in assessment of analgesia after abdominal surgery; a method of comparing analgesic drugs.
104. The effect of posture on diaphragmatic movement and vital capacity in normal subjects with a note on spirometry as an aid in determining radiological chest volumes.
105. Contribution to the Study of Spirometry.