The PFT was to check my breathing and my lungs. One test that was supposed to be given had to be canceled due to one breathing test with saline solution in my lungs decreased my breathing 49% and if the test was given it would slow down my breathing much more.
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90-100% sat is normal, if you used a saline soulution, did they call it a challange test? if they did they wre checking to se how reactive your airways were, the gold standard in diagnosing astham...\nyour doctor will determine the results and give you a regimin to help your breathing
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you should go have another test done
670253
Having the transplant is a positve thing. I am a respiratory therapist that took care of a cf patient for 2 years before and 2 years after a lung transplant. His quaility of life is 100 percent better. And he will not need another transplant. His story is very inspiring actually... I had to do 45min hand cpt on him four times a day for months so to pass the time we talked while I was doing that... He had a positive attitude right up til right about time that he got the call about his new lungs. He got so sick that he was hopeless... then he got his transplant and is doing great! NO respiratory problems to date with him!
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The boards like to try to trick you into the wrong answer. For example if you have a patient that has been in the hospital for a while and their labs, PFT's, and blood gases have improved and are normal, what do you do? Your choices will include many things such as send the patient home, and refer to cardiopulmonary rehab. Always choose rehab!! They try to make you think that the patient is okay with the values that they give you but if rehab is a choice that's the one you want to pick!! Make sure to read the answer carefully! One word could change the answer. Also read all of the answers. There may be more than one correct answer, you need to pick the BEST correct answer. Many times they will put the best answer on bottom and people will get to "b" (it's multiple choice) and pick that one if it's correct and the one they wanted you to pick is "d". There is no formula for peak flow you just have to know your normals. Male 20-30 years old is about 10 L/sec. and female is about 7.5 L/sec.There is usually an insert in the peak flow meter package with a chart for this information. Peak flow decreases with age and obstructive disorders. Not sure what you want to know on the CO2. Are you asking how much the body produces? How much the body eliminates? How much is in the blood?
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Here is one of the tests you are talking about.  I hope this helps.
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It has been my expirence in the corporate world  they give you your test before you start, they have to notify you of ramdon testing and that should be inclucded in your offer or employee handbook, they cannot just pop up on you with a test unless it has been otherwise already a give you would get the random test, and on that note why do they condiser "smoke " to be so bad, i find it makes you a lot more creative and will get you a whole lot more involved...
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Pulmonary function tests or lung function tests are tests to measure the functioning of your lungs, and are used to diagnose diseases like asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).  A spirometer (a device that measures air flow that the patient blows into) is used to measure the amount of air that you breathe out of your lungs.  Based on measurements such as FEV1 and FVC, a trained technician can diagnose you for possible respiratory diseases.  \n\nFEV1 stands for forced expiratory volume for 1 second.  This is the amount of air that you forcibly blow out in one second after you take a very deep breath in.  An important point is that this is done while blowing forcibly and not just blowing like you're whistling.\n\nFVC stands for forced vital capacity.  This is the amount of air that can completely fill your lungs.  This is measured by taking a very deep breath in, blowing forcibly on the spirometer until you have no more air in your lungs, and you have to breathe in.
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Well non-specific changes in one lead do not mean much in themselves.  In the setting of chest pain, they become a bit more worrisome.  Take comfort in the fact that you are in a facility where they will take care of you.  Many people come to this forum with no insurance...they have no benefit of "waiting for doctors to run tests on them;"  all they get is this forum (sad).  Even if you have blockages, the treatments now days are excellent.  So, wait for the tests and good luck!!
525271
Please call the lab where you'll have the test done and ask this important question.  Good luck.
269842
Not accurate or worth it.\n\nThis is a simple/relatively cheap test to have done at the doctor's office.  It's WAY more worth it than saving just a few bucks for inaccurate results from a home test.
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Are you kidding?  Those tests are a joke.  If you can make yourself believe you're telling the truth, then your body won't change when you say it.  Your body might not change anyway.\n\nThe polygraph is bs.
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hi, what I used to due was go to a quite place like a church or a place outside were their is very little noise, or noise at all. I would sit very still and breathe in and out very slowly.. Do the breathing for about ten seconds. Next think of only what you need to know for the test. Go over it in your mind, and relax. To me silence is golden it is a time when mind and body come together
427245
the fluctuation with respirations is normal.  the rest of it i'm not sure about.  if you are unsatisfied with your doc, you might try to find one that will answer your questions better.
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On the 17th of Feb I walked into a hospital and fell down with a heart attack, when I woke up I was stable in the emergency room, the doctor said he was going to run some test in the morning.  The next morning I was feeling much better and they took me down and did a ultra sound on my heart and said it looked fine, then they took me over to do a stress test.  I could not walk on the treadmill cause I just had back surgery about 4 week ago so they did the tes chemicaly through my veins, it was to take about 4 min to do.  About 3 1/2 min into the test I felt very weird on my left side and was then told I was having a full blown stroke.  I was then rushed up to the ICU floor and I was not feeling so good, aparently I was in critical condition.  Mind you a week before this I also found out I had a bleeding ulcer in my stomach.  Anyway the doctors did some MRI's and CAT Scans on me and could not find where the blood clot was that was causing my stroke and they also could not get a hold of my wife.  About an hour and a half went by and I was more coherant so the doctor told me that I might die if they could not get the blood flow back in to my brain, so then he told me their was a new drug called TPA that might find the clot and dissolve it but that I would only have a 2% chance of living through it because of my ulcer and bleeding in the brain, there was only a 3 hour window to be abel to use this medicine and 2 hrs have already passed.  I decided a long time ago I was never going to be a burden to no one including my wife so I told the doctor to give me the TPA, and he did. I went into a coma for about 3 to 4 hrs but I did wake up and saw my lovely wife Lisa crying beside me, I told everything would be ok, she smiled a little.  About six hours had passed with no improvement until I looked down at my left toes and saw they were moving, talk about the best feeling you ever had in your life...so an hour later I was moving my fingers then my arm then my leg and I stayed up for the next 24hrs just moving my left side.  The doctors said my face lifted back into place, no more droop.  By Sat the 20th I was on my was home still a little week but with a clean bill of health.  The doctors said I get to go back to work next Monday and I feel great.  I have decided to take life by the horns and do everything I always wanted to, I just signed up for a Tai Kuan Do class.\n\nSo yes you can pray for me, pray this never happens again.\n\nThanks \n\nDon
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The life support is doing the job of the failing organs.  When it is switched off the body no longer has all the vital jobs being done. The geart would stop when the body became too toxic (in laymans terms!).\nThere are strict guidelines about support being discontinued, several tests have to be done before the doctors can do it..;
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Yes. For example when performing CPR there's the Dr ABC steps. The breathing is checked before the circulation is. Once the breathing step has been fixed you move on to the circulation. If it wasn't possible to breathe without circulation you'd have to do it the other way around, i.e. fix the circulation before you can move onto the breathing.
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Some people freeze up during tests causing them to do bad on the test, even though they may have known the subject in and out.  Its called nerves.  They certainly do effect testing.