Pulmonary function: do your older patients measure up?
Low-cost, accurate, easy-to-use portable spirometry equipment can be set up in a small space in the physician's office. Measurements are taken and recorded in only a few minutes and can be used to compare with predicted values based on age, sex, and height. Generally, values less than 80% of the predicted values are abnormal.
D000368:Aged; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000503:physiopathology; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology; D010366:Peak Expiratory Flow Rate; D013147:Spirometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D014797:Vital Capacity