Reading Time: 2 minutes Read this weekly review for some spaced repetition of the past week’s content.
Spirometry
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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 Unfortunately, due to the forced nature of FVC, patients with obstructive lung disease can be under-diagnosed. But what if there was a better way?
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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!