You are assisting in the PFT lab and are performing a spirom…
You are assisting in the PFT lab and are performing a spirometry test on a patient. After the patient performs the test, you notice their flow-volume loop looks like the image below. The solid black line shows the patient’s effort while the blue dash line shows a “normal” flow-volume loop.Based on the image of the flow-volume loop, what do you assume is going on with your patient?