AIMS To describe symptoms and lung function in patients registered with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary care and to examine how spirometry findings fit with general practitioners' (GPs) diagnoses. METHODS Patients aged ≥40 years with a diagnosis of asthma or COPD registered in the electronic medical record during the previous 5 years were recruited at seven G...

A dvances in portable equipment have led to routine spirometry testing outside of formal pulmonary function laboratories. Practitioners ordering these tests are not formally trained in spirometry interpretation. Providing effective off-site training can be challenging. Our objective was to develop a remotely accessible computer-based tutorial for teaching spirometry interpretation to nonpulmono...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate breathing pattern and thoracoabdominal motion during breathing exercises. METHODS Twenty-four patients with class II or III obesity (18 women; 6 men) were studied on the second postoperative day after gastroplasty. The mean age was 37 +/- 11 years, and the mean BMI was 44 +/- 3 kg/m(2). Diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry with a flow-oriented device and incenti...

Objective. Тo evaluate the possibility of using instrumental methods (spirometry and ultrasound diagnostics) for dynamic monitoring patients with COVID-19-associated lung disease. Materials . To achieve this goal, we performed a comprehensive diagnosis respiratory system lesions in 58 (age - 56.0 years [31; 65]) confirmed COVID-19, followed by examination indexes external function pattern dynam...

UNLABELLED This PhD thesis was written during my employment at the Research Unit of General Practice in Odense, University of Southern Denmark. It comprises an overview and three papers, all published or submitted for publication in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.   BACKGROUND Non-infectious dyspnoea, chronic cough and wheezing are common symptoms in the population. Patients ...

Objective. To evaluate the effects of diaphragmatic breathing exercises and flow and volume-oriented incentive spirometry on pulmonary function and diaphragm excursion in patients undergoing laparoscopic abdominal surgery. Methodology. We selected 260 patients posted for laparoscopic abdominal surgery and they were block randomization as follows: 65 patients performed diaphragmatic breathing ex...

spirometry has been used as a common diagnostic test in asthma. most of the patients with a mild asthma have a fev1 within normal range. hence, other diagnostic methods are usually used. the aim of this study was to evaluate whether eosinophil cationic protein (ecp) could be an accurate diagnostic marker of mild asthma. in this study diagnosis of asthma was made according to internationally acc...

The 2007 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute expert panel asthma guidelines recommend that spirometry be part of routine asthma diagnosis and monitoring of therapy, yet only 35% of pediatric practices use spirometry for patients with asthma. Pediatricians should be aware that routine office spirometry is feasible, practical, and important for optimizing care for children with respiratory s...

Introduction T common criterion recommended for diagnosis of chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) is demonstration of “progressive irreversible airway obstruction” on spirometry. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD) has recommended spirometry as the gold standard for diagnosis of COPD. However, spirometry is not widely available and spirometric test results ...