The most important goal when performing and interpreting spirometry tests is to minimise misinterpretation rates. The reason for performing spirometry (and all other diagnostic tests) is to inform ...

The NLHEP recommends the widespread use of spirometry by PCPs for detecting COPD in adult smokers and describes a new type of spirometer for this purpose: the office spirometer. The value of ...

Spirometry is a type of pulmonary function test that provides information about the function of the lungs and can be used for a variety of purposes. The test uses a spirometer, which is a specialized ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy 70-year-old woman. The only prescription medication I take is for dry eyes. I recently visited my new primary physician for the first time, and she had me do a breathing ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is a lung disease that makes it hard to breathe — yet many people don’t know as much about it as they ...

Quality improvement, standardisation of spirometry testing, and interpretation of results are critically important in the occupational setting. Every day we encounter several workers who are referred ...

All-in-one device enables early lung function testing at the point of care June 07, 2017: ndd Medical Technologies, Inc., the leader in lung function testing, today announced the availability of ...

The American Thoracic Society now recommends use of average reference equations rather than those based on race or ethnicity for the assessment of pulmonary function in clinical and laboratory ...

Cough sounds carry disease-specific acoustic signatures. By analysing these signatures using an AI-based algorithm, the ...

A Karnataka-based start-up has developed an AI-powered app, Shwaasa, that analyses cough sounds to screen for chronic lung diseases such as COPD and asthma. The tool has been validated by AIIMS and ...

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