title: Procedures for respiratory function.
abstract: The emergency practitioner has a wide array of procedures in his armamentarium for the diagnosis of pulmonary dysfunction. The combination of blood gas analysis, spirometry, peak expiratory measurements, and trans-tissue monitors, coupled with clinical and radiographic findings, can offer a concise picture of pulmonary status. Further emergency medicine research in these areas will provide exciting methods of assessing and monitoring treatment responses for patients with pulmonary dysfunction.
mesh_terms: D001784:Blood Gas Analysis; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D013147:Spirometry