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Committee RecommendationsThe Assessment of Ventilatory Capacity: Statement of the Committees on Environmental Health and Respiratory Physiology American College of Chest Physicians
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DETERMINATION OF VENTILATORY CAPACITY
In order to facilitate the performance of accurate, comparable and standardized measurements of ventilatory capacity, the equipment and method of performance should correspond as closely as possible to the following recommendations:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Members of the Steering Groups who also participated in the preparation of this report are: Drs. Peter A. Theodos, Vice-Chairman; G. William Nice, Secretary; Howard A. Andersen; W. Clark Cooper; Saul Lieb; Raymond L. H. Murphy, Jr.; Edward S. Ray (Environmental Health); Donald J. MacIntosh, Vice-Chairman; C. DuWayne Schmidt, Secretary; George G. Burton; Edward H. Chester; Anne M. Goff; Joe R. Norman; and Marvin A. Sackner (Respiratory Physiology).
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This statement was prepared with the help and advice of Drs. William H. Anderson, F.C.C.P., N. LeRoy Lapp, F.C.C.P., Benjamin G. Ferris, Robert Hyatt, and Ian T. T. Higgins.