Automated system for the measurement of airways resistance, lung volumes, and flow-volume loops.
Open Access
- 1 December 1981
- Vol. 36 (12) , 944-949
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.36.12.944
Abstract
Using a digital computer and body plethysmograph measurements of airways resistance, lung volumes, and flow-volume loops may be obtained from a single manoeuvre performed by the patient. All the measurements together with a display of the flow-volume loop are displayed within 10 seconds of the patient completing the manoeuvre. The system appears to offer considerable advantages in speed, objectivity, and reproducibility when compared with conventional methods.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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