Peri-operative spirometry : tool or gadget ?

More and more anesthesia machines are foreseen with spirometry monitoring. Nevertheless, the use of such equipment needs some interpretation skills for the displayed curves and numerical values otherwise it remains just a disturbing gadget rather than a powerful tool. This review explains in his fir...

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Published inActa anaesthesiologica belgica Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 273 - 282
Main Authors VAN LIMMEN, J. G. M, SZEGEDI, L. L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leuven Société belge d'anesthésie et de réanimation 01.01.2008
Subjects
Anesthesia
Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy
Anesthesiology - instrumentation
Anesthesiology - methods
Biological and medical sciences
Humans
Medical sciences
Monitoring, Physiologic - methods
Perioperative Care - instrumentation
Perioperative Care - methods
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology
Pulmonary Ventilation - physiology
Respiration, Artificial - methods
Spirometry
Spirometry
Anesthesia
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Summary:More and more anesthesia machines are foreseen with spirometry monitoring. Nevertheless, the use of such equipment needs some interpretation skills for the displayed curves and numerical values otherwise it remains just a disturbing gadget rather than a powerful tool. This review explains in his first part the basic principles of interpretation of the spirometric data, and in the second part gives concrete examples of clinical situations.
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ISSN:0001-5164