Test category · Specialty diagnostics

Respiratory

How much air the lungs move, how well gas crosses into blood, and the challenge, exercise, sampling and endoscopic tests of the airways and lungs.

Tests with a page

Medical test

Pulse oximetry and blood gases

Medical test

Concepts covered by those pages

Spirometry Full pulmonary function tests PFTs Lung volumes Gas transfer DLCO, TLCO Bronchodilator reversibility test Peak expiratory flow PEF, PEFR Pulse oximetry SpO2 Bronchoscopy Bronchoalveolar lavage BAL Overnight oximetry

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

Methacholine challenge test · also: bronchial challenge test Functional test
Exercise bronchoprovocation test · also: exercise challenge Functional test
Arterial blood gas (ABG) · also: blood gas Laboratory test
Capillary blood gas (CBG) Laboratory test
Venous blood gas (VBG) Laboratory test
Six-minute walk test (6MWT) Functional test
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) Functional test
Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) Functional test
Sputum examination · also: sputum cytology and culture Laboratory test
Thoracentesis · also: pleural tap, pleural aspiration Diagnostic procedure

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