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Editor, Senior Moderator
Rev Invest Clin
. 2025 Sep 17;77(4):100011.
doi: 10.24875/RIC.20000250. Online ahead of print. Functional respiratory evaluation in the coronavirus disease-19 era: The role of pulmonary function test laboratories
Laura Gochicoa-Rangel[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Luis Torre-Bouscoulet[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Antonio Salles Rojas[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Carlos Guzmán-Valderrábano[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Rosaura Esperanza Benítez-Pérez[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Isabel Salas Escamilla[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sergio Monráz-Pérez[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Juan Manuel Grosso-Espinosa[SUP] 5 [/SUP]; Latin-American Society of Respiratory Physiology (SOLAFIRE)
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The pandemic character of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) requires strategy changes designed to guarantee the safety of patients and health-care professionals. We are greatly concerned by the limitations in the operation of pulmonary function test (PFT) laboratories, since there is a high risk of disease progression in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, and we are now faced by the influx of a new group of individuals in the recovery phase of post-COVID-19-syndrome that requires evaluation and follow-up of their respiratory function. To reestablish the operation of PFT laboratories limiting the risk of cross-contamination, we herein present the consensus reached by a group of experts in respiratory physiology, most of whom work in PFT laboratories in several Latin-American countries, on the applicable recommendations for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pneumonia survivors when undergoing PFT. We present the safety and hygiene measures that must be adopted in laboratories or centers where PFT is conducted in adults and/or children. These recommendations answer the following questions: which PFT is most recommended in subjects that have recovered from COVID-19; what quality control and safety measures should PFT laboratories implement during this pandemic? And how should we approach non-COVID-19 patients requiring PFT?
Keywords: Coronavirus disease-19; Pulmonary function test laboratories; Pulmonary function tests; Quality and safety measures; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
. 2025 Sep 17;77(4):100011.
doi: 10.24875/RIC.20000250. Online ahead of print. Functional respiratory evaluation in the coronavirus disease-19 era: The role of pulmonary function test laboratories
Laura Gochicoa-Rangel[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Luis Torre-Bouscoulet[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Antonio Salles Rojas[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Carlos Guzmán-Valderrábano[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Rosaura Esperanza Benítez-Pérez[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Isabel Salas Escamilla[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Sergio Monráz-Pérez[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Juan Manuel Grosso-Espinosa[SUP] 5 [/SUP]; Latin-American Society of Respiratory Physiology (SOLAFIRE)
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- PMID: 40966832
- DOI: 10.24875/RIC.20000250
The pandemic character of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) requires strategy changes designed to guarantee the safety of patients and health-care professionals. We are greatly concerned by the limitations in the operation of pulmonary function test (PFT) laboratories, since there is a high risk of disease progression in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases, and we are now faced by the influx of a new group of individuals in the recovery phase of post-COVID-19-syndrome that requires evaluation and follow-up of their respiratory function. To reestablish the operation of PFT laboratories limiting the risk of cross-contamination, we herein present the consensus reached by a group of experts in respiratory physiology, most of whom work in PFT laboratories in several Latin-American countries, on the applicable recommendations for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pneumonia survivors when undergoing PFT. We present the safety and hygiene measures that must be adopted in laboratories or centers where PFT is conducted in adults and/or children. These recommendations answer the following questions: which PFT is most recommended in subjects that have recovered from COVID-19; what quality control and safety measures should PFT laboratories implement during this pandemic? And how should we approach non-COVID-19 patients requiring PFT?
Keywords: Coronavirus disease-19; Pulmonary function test laboratories; Pulmonary function tests; Quality and safety measures; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.