title: Executive Summary: 2017 ERS/ATS standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the lung.
abstract: This document summarises an update to the European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) technical standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the lung that was last updated in 2005. The full standards are also available online as https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00016-2016 The major changes in these technical standards relate to DLCOmeasurement with systems using rapidly responding gas analysers for carbon monoxide and the tracer gas, which are now the most common type of DLCOinstrumentation being manufactured. Technical improvements and the increased capability afforded by these new systems permit enhanced measurement of DLCOand the opportunity to include other optional measures of lung function.
authors.affiliation: Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada brian.graham@usask.ca.
authors.forename: Brian L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.affiliation: Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
authors.forename: Vito
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brusasco
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Diagnostic Center, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Felip
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Burgos
authors.affiliation: Lung Function and Sleep, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: Brendan G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.affiliation: Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kendrick
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Neil R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: MacIntyre
authors.affiliation: Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: Bruce R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.affiliation: Consultant, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wanger
mesh_terms: D001944:Breath Tests / Q000379:methods; D002248:Carbon Monoxide; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000592:standards; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D002248:Carbon Monoxide