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Asthma WA – Interpreting Spirometry

22 September 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

This session is designed for General Practitioners, Practice Nurses and other health professionals.

Asthma WA invites you to our next health professional education webinar on ‘Interpreting Spirometry’.

This webinar will include:
* Review patient details and indication for spirometry
* Assess quality of spirometry (acceptability and repeatability)
* Assess bronchodilator responsiveness, Lower Limit of Normal (LLN), classify severity of obstruction, identify abnormal ventilatory patterns of FVLs – obstructive, restrictive, mixed obstructive and restrictive, upper and central airway obstruction, submaximal patient effort

There will be opportunities to ask questions at the conclusion of the event.​

Speakers
*Charlene Butler
Senior Respiratory Scientist, Asthma WA
*Max Jenkins-Cooney
Respiratory Health Nurse, Asthma WA

For more information, contact shelley.harwood@asthmawa.org.au