Gas solubility and why it matters
I have been searching through Pulmonary Function videos on YouTube in order to find ones I thought would be useful for technician education. So far what I’ve found have been intended either f…
Month May 2014
How long should patient test data be retained?
In a recent post on the AARC Diagnostics forum a PFT Lab manager asked how long they need to keep database records. The ostensible reason for this was that they had too many years of records and h…
What’s normal about FEV1 and how much does ethnicity matter?
When it comes to spirometry, it’s really all about FEV1. FVC and the FEV1/FVC ratio are also important of course, but because FVC is more likely to be underestimated than FEV1 they are less r…
Personal spirometers, under $500
Pulmonary patients have been using personal peak flow meters for several decades and I started to seeing patients that had their own oximeter over 10 years ago. Within the last couple of years a nu…