Q1: What is the single most important information we are trying to extract from each of these tests.
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Q2: Of the following which is the true pulmonary function test?
Q 3: What is normal Vital capacity?
Q4: You have to know what each test represents and how it is obtained. You cannot interpret PFT if you do not know what they are!
Do you know what each of the following mean?
Q 5: You have to know what each of the following test represents and how it is obtained. Think of your answer and click on each to see my answer.
Q 6: What do these terms mean! Think of your answer and click on each to see my answer.
Factors affecting diffusion capacity
Q 7: What do you evaluate in each of these graphs! Think of your answer and click on each to see my answer.
Flow Volume Loop
Slow Vital capacity
Maximal Voluntary Ventilation
Q 8: Under Spirometry You can see 8-9 measurements.
How many tests do they represent?
Which measurement is most important in deciding on obstruction?
Why do we have so many measurements in Spirometry?
What are the possible sites of obstruction?
What is post Spirometry?
This is the end of lesson on Pulmonary function Test Basics
Updated on 01/05/2006