Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch more true-abnormal findings for Black patients than did ...

A low FEV1 suggests a breathing obstruction. FEV1 is measured during a spirometry test, also known as a pulmonary function test, which involves forcefully breathing out into a mouthpiece connected ...

Primary-care providers (PCPs) should perform an office spirometry test for patients ≥ 45 years old who report smoking cigarettes (current smokers and those who quit during the previous year ...

Experimental Group. The intervention consists of the nurse collecting data, performing a spirometry test and then giving the patient an appointment with their GP within 10 days. At this ...

When spirometry is unavailable, physicians can use the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score plus peak expiratory flow ...

Typically, people with suspected asthma will be offered a spirometry test, which involves taking a deep breath in, then breathing out hard and fast for as long as possible into a tube to assess ...

1 More than 50% of adults with low pulmonary function are not aware that they have COPD 2 and nearly two-thirds of patients with COPD have never had a spirometry test. 1 Without spirometry ...

Take a big deep breath in, up, up, up, up! Suck it in – blow hard! Blast out fast! Blow it out, blow it out, blow it out, blow, blow, blow. Breathe deep, up, up, up, up and catch your breath He ...

The accuracy of that is relatively good but not perfect when compared to formal pulmonary function tests.” Marchetti noted that spirometry is a regular occurrence in pulmonology clinics.