Clinical Focus Series: Pulmonary Function Testing and Interpretation

The book "Pulmonary Function Testing & Interpretation" mainly focuses pulmonologists, allergists, graduate students and surgeons who treat respiratory damage in patients. This book is divided into fifteen different chapters. It elaborately explains history of respiratory physiology including ancient knowledge, dark ages and early renaissance, energy and heat production and mechanics of breathing and lung volumes. Interpretation of spirometric, lung volume and diffusing capacity are...
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The book "Pulmonary Function Testing & Interpretation" mainly focuses pulmonologists, allergists, graduate students and surgeons who treat respiratory damage in patients. This book is divided into fifteen different chapters. It elaborately explains history of respiratory physiology including ancient knowledge, dark ages and early renaissance, energy and heat production and mechanics of breathing and lung volumes. Interpretation of spirometric, lung volume and diffusing capacity are usually carried in pulmonary function laboratories. Result values are associated with gender, age, and body size. This chapter explains preparatory steps for testing including setting up the equipments for measuring spirometric volumes and flow, lung volumes and transfer of carbon monoxide. The importance of spirometry, equipment calibration, spirometric measurements and selection of reference equations are also discussed. There are several methods for assessing airway responsiveness in the laboratory. plethysmography, nitrogen washout using oxygen, inert gas equilibration and single breath effective alveolar volume are some of the methods used to measure lung volume. It also covers Single-Breath DLCO, TLCO, DLCO/VA' and VA' measures, single breath O2 test, airway resistance, lung, and chest wall compliance and maximal pressures, blood gases and ph, exercise testing and ethnic differences. It explains ten interesting case studies to consider and analyze the pulmonary function tests.