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How to Use Pulmonary Function Tests Effectively

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Is Methicoline a Good Choice for Asthma?

In patients with asthma, they can be perfectly fine one minute and have significant obstructive symptoms. If you do pulmonary function tests on an asthmatic patient without symptoms are other tests normal? They often are, but not always. One of the things that we've been trying to design is a bit of a results driven protocol in the lab to shift some of the burden off the ordering provider. We're going to give a bronchodilator and then you're going to get the answer regardless.

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