Reading Time: 3 minutes To diagnose COPD, a person must perform spirometry. When looking at data from the VA only 56% of patients diagnosed with COPD in the hospital had ever shown evidence of obstruction on spirometry.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes As the cases of COVID-19 continue to increase, the long term effects are still emerging. One interesting aspect of this will be what impact it has on the long term effects of the lungs.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes The question you have to answer is, do you perform plethysmography (body box), Nitrogen washout, or Helium dilution?
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Learn the basics of spirometry from our expert Respiratory Therapists in our first post of the RT Series!