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Functional Capacity and Residual Functional Capacity and Their Utility in Measuring Work Capacity

The Clinical Journal of Pain, 1993
The pain physician is often asked to establish the medical impairment of the chronic pain patient (CPP) and from that determination ascertain the work capacity of the CPP. Functional capacity (FC) testing has recently been introduced as a more objective and accurate way of facilitating the determination of work capacity.
E, Abdel-Moty, D A, Fishbain, T M, Khalil, S, Sadek, R, Cutler, R S, Rosomoff, H L, Rosomoff   +6 more
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Residual functional capacity

Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation, 1996
• Make a guess. This is the most frequently used device; • Look it up. But where? It's not a part of AMA's 4th edition of Impairment Ratings! • Call up a friend who you think might have a clue; • Ask the patient what he thinks he can do; • Forget it and file the form in File 13 (circular container); • Defer filling out the form and sign up for a course
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Exercise-induced changes in functional residual capacity

Respiration Physiology, 1987
We used a helium-rebreathe technique in nine healthy subjects to determine the effects of exercise intensity and duration on end-expiratory lung volume (EELV). The rebreathe functional residual capacity (FRC) technique was shown: (a) to be similar to that measured in the body plethysmograph, at rest; (b) to agree closely with volitionally induced ...
M T, Sharratt, K G, Henke, E A, Aaron, D F, Pegelow, J A, Dempsey   +4 more
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Loss of functional residual capacity in poliomyelitis

Journal of Applied Physiology, 1962
Vital capacity, expiratory reserve volume, and functional residual capacity were determined on 11 normal controls and 25 postpoliomyelitis patients with a chronic flaccid respiratory paralysis. In general, the expiratory reserve volume diminished concomitantly with the vital capacity.
I, FAERBER, P B, LIEBERT, M, SUSKIND
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Determination of the functional residual capacity during exercise

Ergonomics, 1980
A rebreathing technique is described for measuring FRC during exercise. Good agreement was found between this technique and a standard helium dilution method using a water spirometer at rest. Measurements of FRC in ten volunteers showed a significant decrease of FRC at the onset of progressive exercise.
KIERS, A, VANDERMARK, TW, WOLDRING, MG, PESET, R   +3 more
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Establishing Functional Residual Capacity at Birth

NeoReviews, 2010
Major changes in cardiovascular and respiratory physiology underpin the successful transition from fetal to neonatal life, and it is now apparent that lung aeration and the onset of pulmonary ventilation trigger such changes. Because preterm infants commonly have difficulty in making the transition to neonatal life, it is important to understand the ...
S.B. Hooper, A.B. te Pas, R.A. Lewis, C.J. Morley   +3 more
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Computerized estimates of functional residual capacity in infants

Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 1981
The methods presently available for measuring FRC of newborn infants are impractical and used primarily as research tools. This report describes a new device for estimating FRC which is accurate, reproducible, and practical for use on critically ill infants in the intensive care unit.
P, Richardson, W, Galway, S, Olsen, J B, Bunnell   +3 more
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Problems in the measurement of functional residual capacity

Physiological Measurement, 2005
Accurate assessment of lung volume in infancy is important to determine the impact of disease and the efficacy of therapies. A new generation of infant plethysmographs with lower apparatus deadspace has been produced, but gives lower volume results than those from older traditional plethysmographs.
Simon J, Broughton, Karl P, Sylvester, Chloe M, Page, Gerrard F, Rafferty, Anthony D, Milner, Anne, Greenough   +5 more
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Functional Residual Capacity Measurement during Tracheal Gas Insufflation

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 1998
Tracheal gas insufflation (TGI) is considered an adjunctive method to enhance carbon dioxide elimination during permissive hypercapnia in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Due to increasing tidal volume and/or expiratory resistance, TGI may cause intrinsic PEEP (PEEPi), and may lessen the advantages of permissive hypercapnia.
Y, Fujino, M, Nishimura, O, Hirao, N, Taenaka, I, Yoshiya   +4 more
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Effect of Pneumoperitoneum on Functional Residual Capacity

2011
Background Pneumoperitoneum (PP) during laparoscopic surgery of the abdomen induces a mechanical compression of the diaphragm that reduces the functional residual capacity (FRC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the adverse effect of PP on FRC and the improvement of the degraded FRC using positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).
Akira, Matsunaga, Katsuhiro, Ohse, Yasuyuki, Kakihana, Mina, Masuda, Kanako, Ikoma, Yuichi, Kanmura   +5 more
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