If you have an old spirometer, with no option to read or upload flow-volume or volume-time curves, please ditch it. Without seeing the graphical traces, you cannot accurately detect spurious or ...
The NLHEP recommends the widespread use of spirometry by PCPs for detecting COPD in adult smokers and describes a new type of spirometer for this purpose: the office spirometer. The value of ...
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) was first described in 1967 as a syndrome of chronic lung disease in prematurely born infants who had been treated for respiratory distress syndrome with supplemental ...