Exclusion Spirometry: A Bad Idea

Exclusion Spirometry: A Bad Idea

No single item or combination of items from the bedside clinical examination can rule out airflow obstruction; for this purpose, spirometry is essential. I, like my colleagues, visually conceptualize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients using objective lung function testing. I am well awar...

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Main Author: Andrew Mcivor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2004-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2004/609730
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spelling doaj-fcc6ff7f1d454fcb9b04d52b2a6352ff2021-07-02T13:58:32ZengHindawi LimitedCanadian Respiratory Journal1198-22412004-01-0111318618710.1155/2004/609730Exclusion Spirometry: A Bad IdeaAndrew McivorNo single item or combination of items from the bedside clinical examination can rule out airflow obstruction; for this purpose, spirometry is essential. I, like my colleagues, visually conceptualize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients using objective lung function testing. I am well aware that spirometry has neither been accepted nor widely performed outside of specialist practice (1). In this issue of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, Almirall and Bégin (pages 195 to 196) provide a very reasoned argument suggesting that obtaining isolated normal values of spirometric indexes can exclude certain conditions.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2004/609730
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description No single item or combination of items from the bedside clinical examination can rule out airflow obstruction; for this purpose, spirometry is essential. I, like my colleagues, visually conceptualize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients using objective lung function testing. I am well aware that spirometry has neither been accepted nor widely performed outside of specialist practice (1). In this issue of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, Almirall and Bégin (pages 195 to 196) provide a very reasoned argument suggesting that obtaining isolated normal values of spirometric indexes can exclude certain conditions.
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