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Pulmonary function tests [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1996
Spirometry is indicated in all the children with clinical diagnosis of asthma, chronic/recurrent cough or wheeze, exercise induced cough or breathlessness and with recurrent respiratory manifestations. Mid expiratory How 25-75% (MEF 25-75) is an important diagnostic parameters in children due to its effort independence, high sensitivity in ...
Y. K. Amdekar, Deepak Ugra
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[Expert consensus on Pulmonary Function Testing during the epidemic of Corona Virus Disease 2019].

Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi = Chinese journal of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases, 2020
Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mainly transmitted by respiratory droplets and close contact. Pulmonary function testing procedures have been associated with an increasing risk of COVID-19 transmission among patients/subjects and medical staffs ...
Clinical Respiratory Physiology
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Pulmonary Function Tests

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1988
The clinical significance of pulmonary function tests (including blood gas analysis) lies in their sensitivity for detecting PCP. PCP has most consistently been found to cause abnormalities in the DLCO and the exercise arterial blood gas; both are highly sensitive for the presence of Pneumocystis infection.
Gianfranco Umberto Meduri, Diane Stover
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Pulmonary-Function Testing

New England Journal of Medicine, 1994
Pulmonary-function tests provide objective, quantifiable measures of lung function. They are used to evaluate and monitor diseases that affect heart and lung function, to monitor the effects of environmental, occupational, and drug exposures, to assess risks of surgery, and to assist in evaluations performed before employment or for insurance purposes.
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Pulmonary Function Tests

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1979
Common questions about lung function tests, including why perform these tests, when are they helpful, who can be tested, and which tests are most useful, are answered for the pediatrician. Tests presently used in clinical pulmonary laboratories are described.
John T. McBride, Mary Elizabeth Wahl
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An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: pulmonary function testing in preschool children.

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2007
Nicole Beydon, Stephanie D. Davis, Enrico Lombardi, Julian L. Allen, Hubertus G. M. Arets, Paul Aurora, Hans Bisgaard, G. Michael Davis, Francine M. Ducharme, Howard Eigen, Monika Gappa, Claude Gaultier, Per M. Gustafsson, Graham L.
N. Beydon   +32 more
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Pulmonary Function Testing [PDF]

open access: possible, 2011
Pulmonary function tests (PFT) remain the most accurate means of quantifying the severity of diffuse lung disease. PFT are an essential aide to the identification or exclusion of early diffuse lung disease in high-risk groups and when there is unexplained exercise intolerance.
Simon Ward, Derek Cramer, Athol U. Wells
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Patient and physician factors associated with pulmonary function testing for COPD: a population study.

Chest, 2014
BACKGROUND The diagnosis of COPD is made by objectively demonstrating nonreversible airflow obstruction of the lungs. Despite this, rates of pulmonary function testing (PFT) for diagnosis remain low.
A. Gershon   +4 more
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Pulmonary-Function Tests

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1969
To the Editor:— The article "Pulmonary-Function Tests" which appeared inThe Journal( 206 :2302, 1968) contains the following statement: "The level of arterial Pco 2 is governed solely by the alveolar ventilation. Elevated Pco 2 means alveolar hypoventilation, and reduced Pco 2 , alveolar hyperventilation." Such a statement ignores the ventilation to ...
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Pulmonary-Function Tests

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1968
All physicians, regardless of their types of practice, are seeing more patients with various forms of chronic lung disease. Pulmonary symptoms may be the primary complaint, or they may become apparent during another illness or after an operation. Pulmonary-function tests offer the means of elucidating the type of physiological impairment present ...
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