Lung function tests

Lung function tests (spirometry, spirography, spiroveloergometriya, bodipletizmografiya) - methods of evaluation of the upper respiratory tract and lungs by measuring the volume and velocity of air expelled. Done alone, with drug test, physical stress on a treadmill or stationary bike.

It is used in the diagnosis of chronic lung diseases and bronchial asthma. It allows you to determine whether a particular disease, to establish the degree of its severity, promotes selection of the optimal treatment strategy in patients with chronic bronchitis, emphysema and asthma; resolve the question of reversibility (reversible - partially reversible) airflow obstruction.