Executive Summary: 2017 ERS/ATS standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the lung

Brian L Graham; Vito Brusasco; Felip Burgos; Brendan G Cooper; Robert Jensen; Adrian Kendrick; Neil R MacIntyre; Bruce R Thompson; Jack Wanger

doi:10.1183/13993003.E0016-2016

Executive Summary: 2017 ERS/ATS standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the lung

Eur Respir J. 2017 Jan 3;49(1):16E0016. doi: 10.1183/13993003.E0016-2016. Print 2017 Jan.

Authors

Brian L Graham¹, Vito Brusasco², Felip Burgos³, Brendan G Cooper⁴, Robert Jensen⁵, Adrian Kendrick⁶, Neil R MacIntyre⁷, Bruce R Thompson⁸, Jack Wanger⁹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada [email protected].
² Dept of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
³ Respiratory Diagnostic Center, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Lung Function and Sleep, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁵ Pulmonary Division, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁶ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK.
⁷ Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
⁸ Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Consultant, Rochester, MN, USA.

PMID: 28049167
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.E0016-2016

Abstract

This document summarises an update to the European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS) technical standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the lung that was last updated in 2005. The full standards are also available online as https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00016-2016 The major changes in these technical standards relate to D_LCO measurement with systems using rapidly responding gas analysers for carbon monoxide and the tracer gas, which are now the most common type of D_LCO instrumentation being manufactured. Technical improvements and the increased capability afforded by these new systems permit enhanced measurement of D_LCO and the opportunity to include other optional measures of lung function.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Breath Tests / methods
Carbon Monoxide*
Europe
Humans
Lung Diseases / diagnosis*
Lung Diseases / physiopathology
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Respiratory Function Tests / standards
Societies, Medical
United States

Substances

Carbon Monoxide