Performing spirometry Who can perform spirometry? Guidance has recently been published on the level of training practitioners should receive before undertaking diagnostic spirometry (NHS England et al ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you have an old spirometer, with no option to read or upload flow-volume or volume-time curves, please ditch it. Without seeing the graphical traces, you cannot accurately detect spurious or ...
PHOENIX -- Experts in lung diseases debated at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology here whether at-home spirometry tests and devices, which are now available ...
September 7, 2010 — The use of spirometry testing to diagnose and manage asthma in children is underused by pediatric primary care physicians, especially pediatricians, and does not conform to ...
Exclusive GPs and practice nurses will have to undergo specialist training in order to continue using spirometry in their practices, under new rules being developed for NHS England to improve the ...
In 2008, as part of the changes to develop integrated health care services in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, the local health board in collaboration with general practitioners, respiratory ...