Quality improvement, standardisation of spirometry testing, and interpretation of results are critically important in the occupational setting. Every day we encounter several workers who are referred ...

Performing spirometry Who can perform spirometry? Guidance has recently been published on the level of training practitioners should receive before undertaking diagnostic spirometry (NHS England et al ...

Spirometry is widely used to diagnose and monitor respiratory diseases, but requires specific skills and knowledge. A national register is being created which will feature all appropriately trained ...

GPs do not need to undertake new NHS England training requirements to perform spirometry in their practices, according to the BMA’s GP Committee. A statement from the GPC has clarified that despite ...

A new category of spirometers, office spirometers, should be available for use in the primary-care setting. Each new model must successfully pass a validation study (see Appendix 1). The FEV 1 percent ...

Spirometry is a common pulmonary function test that measures how well a person moves air in and out of the lungs. Workers who inhale some types of dusts, gases or other air contaminants can, over time ...

Exclusive GPs and practice nurses will have to undergo specialist training in order to continue using spirometry in their practices, under new rules being developed for NHS England to improve the ...

September 7, 2010 — The use of spirometry testing to diagnose and manage asthma in children is underused by pediatric primary care physicians, especially pediatricians, and does not conform to ...

A diagnosis of COPD is confirmed by post‑bronchodilator spirometry supported by a quality-control process. To ensure early diagnosis, spirometry should be done in primary care when a person presents ...