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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: How to Use Pulmonary Function Tests Effectively
Description: Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. Â [@chutkaMD;]
Guest: Alexander S. Niven, M.D.
Pulmonary function tests are extremely useful in both diagnosing and managing patients with respiratory disease. In addition to a medical history, physical exam and imaging studies, they give us a great deal of information of the pulmonary physiology and help us understand why patients have various respiratory symptoms. However, there are quite a number of pulmonary function tests available to us and which tests we should order can be confusing. Do we know when spirometry, lung volumes or diffusion capacity will be u...