A physician associated with my PFT lab has become an investigator for a device study intended for patients with severe COPD. One of the major criteria for patients to be able to enroll in this stud…
We’ve been aware of this particular issue for several years. My PFT lab has had some turnover lately and the newer staff aren’t familiar with this problem so it has re-appeared in some …
The FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio seems to have become the predominant, if not the sole factor for determining the presence of airway obstruction. It is true that a reduced FEV1/FVC ratio provides a stro…
I used to think that spirometry and diffusion capacity tests were hard and that lung volumes were easy. That may have been true in terms of getting patients to do the tests but I’ve long sinc…
