diagnosed2016
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I am wondering about the respiratory tests they do at clinic: when the therapist tests for FVC and a patient is at a certain percentage (say it's 95%), is that 95% predicted for ANY person of similar age/body/etc or is it 95% predicted of what it should be, based on the last test performed?
The difference being that with an ALS patient, decline is expected and therefore the predicted score would automatically adjust lower for each consecutive test?
Hope I'm making sense. Thus far we have had very little change in predicted values at each clinic and I'm trying to figure out if that means there really has been no change or if that means he is declining slower than predicted by the machine.
The difference being that with an ALS patient, decline is expected and therefore the predicted score would automatically adjust lower for each consecutive test?
Hope I'm making sense. Thus far we have had very little change in predicted values at each clinic and I'm trying to figure out if that means there really has been no change or if that means he is declining slower than predicted by the machine.
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