title: Peri-operative spirometry: tool or gadget?
abstract: More and more anesthesia machines are foreseen with spirometry monitoring. Nevertheless, the use of such equipment needs some interpretation skills for the displayed curves and numerical values otherwise it remains just a disturbing gadget rather than a powerful tool. This review explains in his first part the basic principles of interpretation of the spirometric data, and in the second part gives concrete examples of clinical situations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. Jurgen.vanlimmen@uzgent.be
authors.forename: J G M
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Van Limmen
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Szegedi
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation / Q000502:physiology*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D013147:Spirometry