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- Received March 20, 2021
- Accepted July 2, 2021
- Published online October 5, 2021.
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- 1Division of Respirology, Dept of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 2Lakeshore General Hospital, Quebec, Canada
- 3Dept of Medicine, Respiratory Division, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 4Montreal Chest Institute, Meakins-Christie Labs and Oscillometry Unit of the Centre for Innovative Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and Research Institute, Montreal, Canada
- 5National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
- 6Dept of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- 7Division of Respirology and Multi-Organ Transplant Programme, Dept of Medicine, Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
- Corresponding author: Omar Usmani (o.usmani{at}imperial.ac.uk)
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Vol 30 Issue 162
Table of Contents
Exploring the 175-year history of spirometry and the vital lessons it can teach us today
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- Article
- Abstract
- Abstract
- Respiration from antiquity to the modern era
- The Hutchinson spirometer
- The golden age of spirometry
- The flow–volume curve
- Standardization of spirometry
- The prognostic potential of spirometry
- The evidence for spirometry
- Moving spirometry out of the laboratory and into the office
- The intersection of spirometry and race
- The future of spirometry
- Thinking beyond spirometry
- Conclusion
- Footnotes
- References
- Figures & Data
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