Spirometry for COPD WisdomCard™

Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Spirometry for COPD and compiled helpful research notes below.

  1. Johns Hopkins Medicine: Spirometry for COPD johnshopkinshealthalerts.com - Spirometry for COPD
  2. Medscape CME: Screening for COPD With Spirometry Reviewed (March 10, 2008)cme.medscape.com - Screening for COPD With Spirometry Reviewed
  3. Pulmonary Reviews: Spirometry for COPD Evaluation May Be Severely Underutilized (Sept. 2007)pulmonaryreviews.com - Spirometry for COPD Evaluation May Be Severely Underutilized
  4. Patient UK: Spirometry: What Can the Measurements Show? - An Obstructive Pattern - Typical of Diseases That Cause Narrowed Airways patient.co.uk - Spirometry: What Can the Measurements Show? - An Obstructive Pattern - Typical of Diseases That Cause Narrowed Airways
  5. Chest: The Importance of Spirometry in COPD and Asthma: Effect on Approach to Management (Feb. 2000)chestjournal.chestpubs.org - The Importance of Spirometry in COPD and Asthma: Effect on Approach to Management
  6. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): COPD: Spirometry nhlbi.nih.gov - COPD: Spirometry
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Research Notes on Spirometry for COPD


Spirometry is a diagnostic test that is sometimes recommended when a physician suspects chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a patient. Spirometry is also recommended four to six weeks after an exacerbation (or flare-up).1

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Research Notes References

  1. ↑ Johns Hopkins Medicine: Spirometry for COPD

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