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.

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 DLCO measurement with systems using rapidly responding gas analysers for carbon monoxide and the tracer gas, which are now the most common type of DLCO instrumentation being manufactured. Technical improvements and the increased capability afforded by these new systems permit enhanced measurement of DLCO 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