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PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS AT WORK

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2001
Occupational exposures remain an important cause of lung disease. A number of PFTs are used in the occupational setting, including spirometry, PEF recordings, methacholine challenge testing, lung volume, and DL(CO). These tests are used in a number of situations, including the clinical evaluation and management of patients with possible occupational ...
A, Sood, C A, Redlich
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Screening Tests of Pulmonary Function

New England Journal of Medicine, 1970
SCREENING tests of pulmonary function are procedures that can separate normal from abnormal lungs in only a few minutes of the patient's time, with little or no discomfort to him. Ideally, the tests should use inexpensive and portable apparatus whose operation requires little or no technical training; they should be free from error, should pinpoint the
J H, Comroe, J A, Nadel
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Pediatric Pulmonary Function Testing

Respiratory Care Clinics of North America, 2000
Pulmonary function testing is an essential component in the diagnosis and monitoring of the pediatric asthmatic. Very young children are capable of performing spirometry, lung Volumes, airway mechanics, and other testing. Obtaining valid test results in children is dependent on multiple factors including equipment selection, environment, technologist ...
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Pediatric Pulmonary Function Testing

Clinics in Chest Medicine
Respiratory disease has a major impact on children's health, and objective measures of lung function are critical for the care and study of pediatric lung disease. Understanding lung development provides a conceptual framework for pulmonary function test (PFT) findings in children.
Heather, Boas, Clement L, Ren
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CLINICAL PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1959
Excerpt Many clinicians—doctors who practice medicine and see patients at the bedside rather than those who spend most of their work day in laboratories—frequently think of pulmonary function testi...
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Office Pulmonary Function Testing

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1984
The underutilization of pulmonary function tests is due to many factors, including a general misunderstanding of the physiology involved and confusion over who to test, when and how to test them, and what equipment to use. This article attempts to demystify pulmonary function tests and makes practical suggestions concerning equipment and techniques to ...
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Pulmonary Function Tests

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 1952
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The Whys of a Pulmonary Function Test

The American Journal of Nursing, 1960
H, CREIGHTON, W W, COULTER
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Testing children for pulmonary function.

Australian family physician, 1989
Tests of pulmonary function provide evidence of the nature and severity of lung disease; they occasionally aid a specific diagnosis and they are an excellent guide to the patient's progress. They assist the physician to establish the severity of the disease.
Sly, P. D., Robertson, C. F.
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COVID-19 and the effects on pulmonary function following infection: A retrospective analysis

EClinicalMedicine, 2021
Neal Patel, Scott A Helgeson, Hassan Baig   +2 more
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