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- Country: United Kingdom
- Summary: Provision of Pulmonary Function Testing
- GBT Ref No: 68988680
- Deadline: 29 Jul 2022
- Competition: ICB
- Financier: Self Financed
- Purchaser Ownership: Public
- Tender Value: Refer Document
- Notice Type: Tender
- Document Ref. No.: 702376450
- Purchaser's Detail :
- Description :
- Provision of Pulmonary Function Testing
Project Description :In order to maintain the maximum number of Operationally effective Military divers , the Ministry of Defence (the Authority) is required to provide Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT). This test, when required, is used to inform decision-making regarding fitness to undertake diving training and maintaining / returning Military divers to full diving fitness.
An outline of the standard testing for divers includes, as a minimum but not limited to, the following:
a. Medical history questionnaire;
b. Targeted physical examination where applicable;
c. Flow volume loop;
d. Plethysmography
e. Gas transfer;
f. Exercise spirometry;
g. β2 agonist reversibility.
The current Association of Respiratory Technicians and Physiologists (ARTP) standards for the testing should be used wherever possible. For aspects of testing not covered by the ARTP standards, current best practice should be followed.
An outline of the standard measurements include as a minimum, but not limited to:
a. Dynamic lung volume measurement.
b. Dynamic lung volumes using body plethysmography (constant volume box) producing Flow Volume Loop (FVL).
c. Diffusing Capacity of the Lungs for Carbon Monoxide (DLCO) IAW ARTP standards.
d. Static lung volumes using body plethysmography including: Total Lung Capacity (TLC), Residual Volume (RV), Functional Residual Capacity (FRC), Vital Capacity (VC).
e. F... - Documents :
Purchaser : MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
United Kingdom
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Email :kelvin.edwards109@mod.gov.uk
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