Body Plethysmography WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Body Plethysmography
Body plethsmography is a pulmonary function test which determines how much air is present in the lungs when you take a deep breath and how much air is left in your lungs after you exhale as much as you can.1 Body plethysmography is used to measure total lung capacity and residual volume (RV), which is the amount of air that remains in your lungs after you exhale.2
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- During whole-body plethysmography, individuals are enclosed in a chamber equipped to measure pressure, flow, and volume changes while spirometry, bronchial challenge and other tests are performed.3
- The test involves rapid and normal breathing and is not painful, but individuals may feel short of breath or light-headed.4
- Individuals preparing to take the test should avoid smoking as well as heavy meals and heavy exercise for six hours before the test.5
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Research Notes References
- ↑ About.com: Body Plethysmography
- ↑ Revolution Health: Lung Function Tests
- ↑ RT for Decision Makers in Respiratory Care: Whole-body Plethysmography
- ↑ MedlinePlus: Lung Plethysmography
- ↑ About.com: Lung Plethysmography
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- Contributor: Shana Scott
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
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- Last update: Oct. 14, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Shana Scott
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Testing for lung diseases, Lung testing, Lung plethysmography, Plethysmography testing, Lung function tests, Lung fuction testing
- Last update: May 14, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
