Spirometry is a standard test doctors use to determine how well your lungs function. A score that measures airflow into and out of your lungs can help diagnose COPD and determine the best treatments.

Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume or forced vital capacity was related to mortality. 185 years later, spirometry is ...

Primary-care providers (PCPs) should perform an office spirometry test for patients ≥ 45 years old who report smoking cigarettes (current smokers and those who quit during the previous year ...

Over half of ICSs do not have enough spirometry testing capacity to meet demand, according to new research by a lung health ...

1 More than 50% of adults with low pulmonary function are not aware that they have COPD 2 and nearly two-thirds of patients with COPD have never had a spirometry test. 1 Without spirometry ...

However, the first prospective study of > 1,000 spirometry tests performed by nurses in the outpatient clinics of 30 randomly selected primary-care physicians in New Zealand found that less than ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Your healthcare provider will consider your symptoms to determine which tests to order. Spirometry measures lung volume—how ...

Garfield says. What about a home spirometry test for COPD? Spirometry is a test that measures how much air you can breathe out and how quickly. It's considered the gold standard for diagnosing COPD.

The ability to predict spirometry-defined COPD was significantly better when a modified lung function questionnaire score was ...