environments, substances, weather conditions, emotional states, or activities. Asthma sufferers should try to keep on top of their symptoms by monitoring them every day and measuring their peak flow (how much air they can blow out of their lungs). If ...
A lung test called spirometry measures how much air you can breathe in and out. The results will help your doctor decide whether you have asthma and how severe it is. They may also suggestallergytesting to pinpoint some of your triggers. ...
Tests that show whether you need asthma treatment include spirometry and peak flow tests Long-term asthma treatment can involve preventer inhalers to help improve your lung function and avoid asthma attacks Short-term asthma treatments like reliever inhalers are used when you get asthma symptoms ...
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. Expert panel report II: guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. Bethesda: NHLBI Information Center, 1997 Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Asthma Education Program, Ex...
This suggests that patients with impaired lung function may benefit from using high-resistance devices.5 A minimum peak inspiratory flow rate (PIFR) of 30 L/min is commonly required to activate DPI devices; that is, to trigger deaggregation and deliver the dose to the lungs.7, 8, 9 ...
consider what reference value ranges should be used for transgender patients. The 2019 American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society guidelines specify that patients should be informed that “birth sex and not gender is the determinant of predicted lung size” and using non-birth sex to...
The effect of biomass burning on respiratory symptoms and lung function in rural Mexican women. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;174(8):901-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200503-479OC 75. Saha A, Rao NM, Kulkarni PK, Majumdar PK, Saiyed HN. Pulmonary function and fuel use: a ...
ACCURACY OF MINI PEAK-FLOW METERS (PFMS) IN INDICATING CHANGES IN LUNG FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH ASTHMA 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 8 作者: T Bell 摘要: The article includes printouts of longitudinal comparisons of spirometry and specific mini-PFM readings from the individual subjects; ...
The human lung—a sterile environment? The role of the gut microbiome in the pathogenesis of asthma has been extensively studied and reviewed in the last decades [8,9]. This is facilitated by non-invasive access to samples that contain high bacterial biomass. In contrast, the microbial density...
Results—The relation between changes in lung function measured with the spirometer and those measured with the mini flow meters was generally poor. In all, 26 episodes (range 1-3 in an individual child) of clinically important deterioration in lung function were detected from the records obtained...