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 ...

As such, modern medics typically use something called a spirometry test to gauge a person's lung health. In these exams, a person has a clip attached to their nose and a tube placed in front of ...

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.

Until now, confirmation has required a spirometry test involving forced exhalation. It can take half an hour or more, and that's once you've managed to get an appointment. Dr Simon Rudland, a GP in ...

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 ...

The odds for bronchodilator responsiveness significantly fell among patients who underwent spirometry testing in the ...

Until now, confirmation has required a spirometry test involving forced exhalation. It can take half an hour or more, and that's once you've managed to get an appointment. Dr Simon Rudland ...