Month March 2013

One of the things that I enjoy most about reviewing cardiopulmonary exercise tests is that I always have to reach back into the basics of physiology in order to get a sense of what the results are …

For the last several months I’ve noticed what appears to be a greater than normal number of patient test results where the VA volume from the DLCO test was greater than the TLC. This is not i…

In my last blog on personal spirometers I mentioned that one of the university projects has developed software that assesses spirometry results for ATS-ERS standard including cough, glottal closure…

Peak flow meters, both mechanical and electronic, have been available to asthma patients for years. A number of inexpensive spirometers that meet ATS-ERS standards are now available for little as $…