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Conducting Respiratory Oscillometry in an Outpatient Setting
Published on: April 8, 2022
Still no room to breathe: insights on supine lung mechanics from oscillometry in COPD
David A Kaminsky1, Peter M A Calverley2
1Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA.
Abstract:
A study in ERJ Open Research documents the effects of supine posture on lung mechanics in patients with COPD. Specifically, it finds that hyperinflation is related to expiratory flow limitation and increased dynamic elastance. https://bit.ly/4eQG7G7.
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