Covid-19 and spirometry in this age

Italian Journal of Pediatrics

Fabio Decimo¹  Michele Miraglia Del Giudice¹  Angela Klain¹  Cristiana Indolfi¹  Giulio Dinardo¹ 

[1] Department of woman, child and general and specialized surgery, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’;

关键词: Covid-19;    Pulmonary function test;    Spirometry;    Children;    Safety;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13052-022-01199-5

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract In the last year, many countries adopted a plan to contain hospital infections by Sars-Cov-2 also limiting pulmonary function tests (PFTs), exclusively to indispensable cases. All the recommendations of the major scientific societies regarding the use of PFTs, in particular spirometry, in the Covid era were formulated in the initial period of the pandemic. Currently, the new scientific knowledge about Sars-Cov-2 and the vaccination among healthcare workers, shown new insight to start doing PFTs again to help the investigation and monitoring of patients with respiratory pathology. In this article, we sum up the recommendations of major International Respiratory Societies, and we shared our experience about PFTs in a Pediatric Respiratory Disease Unit during the pandemic.

【 授权许可】

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