Quality assessment pathway for respiratory oscillometry

Alice M Cottee; Cindy Thamrin; Claude S Farah; Leigh M Seccombe

doi:10.1183/23120541.00569-2021

Quality assessment pathway for respiratory oscillometry

ERJ Open Res. 2022 Mar 7;8(1):00569-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00569-2021. eCollection 2022 Jan.

Authors

Alice M Cottee^{1

2

3}, Cindy Thamrin^{2

3}, Claude S Farah^{1

2

3}, Leigh M Seccombe^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Thoracic Medicine, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
² Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
³ Woolcock Emphysema Centre and Airway Physiology and Imaging Group, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

A flow-chart-driven procedure is presented to facilitate respiratory oscillometry operator competency and measurement quality. A novel feature is a quality grading system, in line with other standards of lung function. https://bit.ly/3G4r0X1.