[Spirometry for the primary care physician? For which patient?].
Spirometry is the simplest pulmonary function test and recently became available to all physicians by means of economic and performing devices. Spirometry however requires a good knowledge of indications, realization and interpretation. Expert recommendations, regularly updated by the American and European respiratory societies, specify the necessary conditions for spirometry to provide useful information for the care of patients.
Jayet
Pierre-Yves
PY
Service de pneumologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. pierre-yves.jayet@chuv.ch
Heinzer
Raphaël
R
Fitting
Jean-William
JW
D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D008449:Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000379:methods; D013147:Spirometry / Q000592:standards; D013557:Switzerland; D014797:Vital Capacity