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Hospital tests

Contents

  1. Hospital tests
  2. The Spirometry test
  3. Exercise Spirometry
  4. Exercise Spirometry who should be tested?
  5. DLco gas transfer test, (Diffusion in lungs using Carbon Monoxide)
  6. DLco, gas transfer – during the test
  7. Lung Volumes
  8. Most common methods of measuring lung volumes
  9. Why measure lung volumes?
  10. Histamine/Methacholine/Mannitol Challenge Test - Why is this test done?
  11. The Histamine/Methacholine Challenge Test
  12. Mannitol Challenge Test
  13. Skin allergy testing (skin prick testing)
  14. What will happen if I have a skin prick test?
  15. The skin prick test
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