Infant lung function testing: available and useful methods

Infant lung function testing--moving into the clinic now?

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/res The papers by Wildhaber et al. [1] and Lagerstrand et al. [2] in this issue of Respiration indicate that assessment of airway function may soon become a routine procedure for the evaluation of infants with chest disease and the assessment of response to therapy. Lung function tests for adults were developed to a large extent during the 1950s and...

Infant lung function testing: What’s hot, what’s not?

Standardised lung function testing.

In 1983 a supplement entitled "Standardised Lung Function Testing" was published by one of our parent journals, the Bulletin Europeen de Physiopathologie Respiratoire [1]. This seminal and widely quoted work reported the recommendations of a Working Party established originally under the auspices of the European Community for Coal and Steel and reflecting the long-standing interest of that body...

The infant lung function model: a mechanical analogue to test infant lung function equipment.

To facilitate international multicentre studies and quality control of infant pulmonary function measurements, the European Respiratory Society-American Thoracic Society (ERS-ATS) working group for infant lung function testing aims to develop specifications for standardized infant lung function equipment and software. However, a standardized test device is also needed to test whether existing i...

Instillation and Fixation Methods Useful in Mouse Lung Cancer Research.

The ability to instill live agents, cells, or chemicals directly into the lung without injuring or killing the mice is an important tool in lung cancer research. Although there are a number of methods that have been published showing how to intubate mice for pulmonary function measurements, none are without potential problems for rapid tracheal instillation in large cohorts of mice. In the pres...