ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2021
Exploring the 175-year history of spirometry and the vital lessons it can teach us today.
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- Reliability and usability of a portable spirometer compared to a laboratory spirometer.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Trial
- Pulmonary Reserve and Respiratory Recovery After Cardiac Surgery: Insights from Preoperative Spirometric Phenotyping.Biomedicines · 2026Article
- Spirometric Lung Function Among Smokers and Non-Smokers: A Cross-Sectional Study in University Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Regional disparities in access to spirometry in the Brazilian public health system.Respiratory research & clinical practice · 2026Observational
- Innovation in technologies for monitoring lung function in patients with respiratory disease.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2025Article
- Measuring lung mechanics in patients with COPD using the handheld portable rapid expiratory occlusion monitor (REOM): A cross-sectional study.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- The epithelial era of asthma research: knowledge gaps and future direction for patient care.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024Review
- ERS/ATS Global Lung Function Initiative normal values and classifying severity based on z-scores instead of per cent predicted.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2024Article
- Is lung function in a race against time?Experimental physiology · 2024Article
- Tracking Tidal Volume From Holter and Wearable Armband Electrocardiogram Monitoring.IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics · 2024Article
- Increasing patient access to spirometry in the Unified Health System in Brazil: no longer a dream but a near reality.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2024Article
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- Time to re-set our thinking about airways disease: lessons from history, the resurgence of chronic bronchitis / PBB and modern concepts in microbiology.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Review
- Prioritising universal access to respiratory diagnostics.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- Oscillometry in Lung Function Assessment: A Comprehensive Review of Current Insights and Challenges.Cureus · 2023Review
- Reference equations for oscillometry and their differences among populations: a systematic scoping review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Article
- An analysis of alternative forced oscillation technique reporting and validation methods for within- and between-sessions in healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Current and Future Role of Technology in Respiratory Care.Pulmonary therapy · 2022Review
- Race/Ethnicity, Spirometry Reference Equations, and Prediction of Incident Clinical Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2022Article
- Beyond the Expiratory Limb: A Complete Raw Spirometry Dataset.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
175 years have elapsed since John Hutchinson introduced the world to his version of an apparatus that had been in development for nearly two centuries, the spirometer. Though he was not the first to build a device that sought to measure breathing and quantify the impact of disease and occupation on lung function, Hutchison coined the terms
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