PG8 Lung function testing

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: A. McGowan (Dublin, Ireland), A. Aliverti (Milan, Italy)
Aims: to provide an update on the current techniques for measuring lung physiology. The results of these techniques and their implications in terms of lung disease will be discussed as well as how these techniques are performed.

Spirometry and body plethysmography B. Thompson (Melbourne, Australia)
Group assignment B. Thompson (Melbourne, Australia)
Forced oscillation technique Z. Hantos (Deszk, Hungary)
Multi-breath washout S. Verbanck (Brussels, Belgium)
Group assignment S. Verbanck (Brussels, Belgium)