Abstract
A survey of the development and work of a pulmonary function laboratory in a teaching hospital over a 10-year period has shown an increasing demand for pulmonary function tests from all departments, in particular some of the surgical ones. Though no arrangement for staffing and equipping such a laboratory is ideal quite a lot of useful clinical information can be derived from a few simple tests performed in a central laboratory.
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