Spirometry | OSU MedNet21

Learn About Pulmonary Function Testing and Office Based Spirometry on Webcast. This webcast will discuss Pulmonary Function Testing & Office Based Spirometry. In the first half of the program, learners will gain an understanding of the key updates in the 2022 ATS/ERS pulmonary function test (PFT) guidelines. We will discuss how these revisions differ from the 2005 standards in areas such as test interpretation, reference values, and diagnostic criteria. In the second half viewers should expect to learn key updates in PFT interpretation, including the impact of the new reference standards and revised criteria for classifying severity of impairments and bronchodilator responsiveness. Learners will also appreciate common physiologic impairments on PFTs and develop an approach to interpreting PFTs.

Pulmonary Function Testing can be a useful way to detect and monitor disease. So on this program, we have invited two Ohio State University’s Pulmonary experts to teach us how to interpret PFTs and recent updates to PFT interpretation including the 2022 American Thoracic Society & European Respiratory Society joint guidelines. First, we’d like to welcome Dr Matthew Huang, who is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine who specializes in treating Asthma and COPD. Second, we have Dr Gennie Wang joining us. She is the Medical Director of the Pulmonary Function Testing Lab at Ohio State and a clinician-scientist studying Women’s lung health disparities.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

To understand common physiologic impairments on PFTs.
To develop an approach to interpreting PFTs.

You’ll also learn about the following:

Indications
Spirometry vs PFTs
2022 Updates
Accurate PFTs

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Webcast Teaches on Pulmonary Function Tests and Office Spirometry. Probably the most important tests we use in evaluating and managing lung disease are pulmonary function tests and particularly, spirometry. In the past, PFTs were relegated to the hospital pulmonary function lab and they were usually interpreted by pulmonologists. But today, the availability of inexpensive office spirometers has led to many primary care physicians performing spirometry in their own offices and doing their own interpretations. The focus of today’s webcast is going to be on how to perform and interpret office spirometry. We’ll be covering all of the information that we require at our own hospital for credentialing non-pulmonologists to do spirometry. And then, we’ll finish up with a look at some of the other pulmonary function tests that you can order from full-service pulmonary labs.

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to do the following:

Understand the indications for office spirometry
Understand the definitions of obstruction
Recognize common errors with data entry and performance of testing
Recognize common flow volume loop patterns
Understand the clinical significance of restriction and a low diffusing capacity

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.