HERMES Spirometry: the European Spirometry Driving Licence

Harmonising spirometry education with HERMES: training a new generation of qualified spirometry practitioners across Europe.

The considerable toll of respiratory diseases in terms of quality of life, disability of patients and indeed premature death [2] underlines the importance of spirometry in the detection and monitoring during the management of respiratory disease. Yet, in the past two decades, there have been specific concerns of under-utilisation in screening [3], lack of training [4] and misdiagnosis based on ...

History of the European Computer Driving Licence

The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) began as a project which set out to define the computer skills required by the ordinary citizen to take advantage of the new end user technology. The project started in 1995 and since that time ECDL has become the leading digital literacy certification in the world with almost 10 million candidates enrolled in the programme. The core ECDL consists of...

The physiologic basis of spirometry.

Spirometry is the most useful and commonly available tests of pulmonary function. It is a physiological test that measures individual inhalation and exhalation volumes of air as a function of time. Pulmonologists and general-practice physicians commonly use spirometry in their offices in the assessment and management of lung disease. Spirometric indices are well validated and easily interpreted...

Standardisation of spirometry.

Postoperative incentive spirometry use.

The authors hypothesized that the use of incentive spirometry by orthopedic patients is less than the recommended level and is affected by patient-related factors and type of surgery. To determine its postoperative use, the authors prospectively surveyed all patients in their institution's general orthopedic ward who had undergone elective spine surgery or total knee or hip arthroplasty during ...