AO 01 BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION USING INHALED MANNITOL – A PHASE 3 TRIAL OF ADULT & PEDIATRIC ASTHMATICS & NON-ASTHMATICS
J D Brannan, S D Anderson, R Freed-Martens and the Aridol Study Group

AO 02 IMPROVEMENT IN ALVEOLAR NO AND BRONCHIAL NO FLUX FOLLOWING 3 MONTHS OF TREATMENT WITH BELCOMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE
Sue Downie, BSc, Gregory King, MD, PhD and Cheryl Salome, PhD

AO 03 EFFECT OF TREATMENT ON RECOVERY OF FEV1 TO BASELINE AFTER A MANNITOL CHALLENGE: A PHASE 3 STUDY
R Freed-Martens, S. D. Anderson, J.D. Brannan, and the Aridol Study Group

AO 04 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THREE METHODS FOR PREDICTING BREATHING RESERVE RATIO DURING EXERCISE
Paul T Kelly and Maureen P Swanney

AO 05 MEASURED INCREASE IN LUNG VOLUMES IN COMPETITIVE FREEDIVING
Leigh Seccombe MSSc, Peter Rogers MSc CRFS, Zudin Puthucheary BMed Sci, Chris Wong MB BS, Christine Jenkins MD FRACP.

AO 06 COMPARISON BETWEEN CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY AND THE 100% OXYGEN TECHNIQUE IN THE DETECTION OF SHUNT.
Jeffrey J. Pretto CRFS, Danny J. Brazzale CRFS and Peter D. Rochford CRFS.

AO 07 SPIROMETRY TRAINING DOES NOT GUARANTEE VALID RESULTS.
Borg BM, Hartley MF, Fisher MT, Thompson BR

AO 08 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF SPIROMETERS IN THE RURAL SETTING.
Hartley MF, Borg BM, Fisher MT, Thompson BR

AO 09 FACTORS DETERMINING THE FRACTION OF INSPIRED OXYGEN WHEN BREATHING THROUGH A NASAL CANNULA
Sonya D. Johnston and Andrew T. Thornton

AO 10 ACCEPTABLE ACCURACY OF OFF-LINE MEASUREMENT OF EXHALED NITRIC OXIDE PROVIDING FLOW RATE IS CONTROLLED
Lorenz T, Homan S

AO 11 HEAVY MEALS DO NOT AFFECT LUNG FUNCTION IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS
Elise McKeon, Chris Nathan, NZCS, CRFS, Nigel McArdle, MD, Kevin Gain, PhD, CRFS

AO 12 SELECTION OF PULMONARY FUNCTION REFERENCE EQUATIONS FOR THE CHRISTCHURCH POPULATION
MP Swanney, LA Wallace, LE Beckert, KL Wilson and CM Frampton

AP 01 A PILOT STUDY FOR A QUALITY CONTROL PROGRAM IN SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND RESPIRATORY LABORATORIES
Jenni Savage MSc CRFS, Linda Ruedinger BSc CRFS, Andrew Southwell BSc CRFS

AP 02 FEASIBILITY OF CONDUCTING AN AUSTRALASIAN EXTERNAL PROFICIENCY TESTING PROGRAM FOR LUNG FUNCTION
Peter D. Rochford, Jeffrey J. Pretto, Tracy T Barber and Paul A. Guy.

AP 03 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN AND GLOBAL GRADING OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) SEVERITY
Paul Guy, Andrew Kyoong, Stijn Mol, Paul Finlay, Peter Holmes & Phil Bardin

AP 04 SCREENING FOR CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) IN GOSFORD HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS, USING THE NSW CLINICAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK GUIDELINES (CSF)
Dana Anquetil, BMedSc, Gary Nolan, MAppSc, Debbie Burton, PhD

AP 05 DIAGNOSTIC SPIROMETERS FOR PRIMARY CARE IN AUSTRALIA: HOW ‘GOOD’ ARE THEIR CURRENT FEATURES?
Debbie Burton, David P Johns and Maureen P Swanney

AP 06 EVALUATION OF THE EASYONE SPIROMETER FOR PAEDIATRIC USE: A PILOT STUDY.
Andrew Coates, MAppSc, Advanced Clinician, CRFS.

AP 07 EFFECT OF CALIBRATION METHODS ON SPIROMETRY RESULTS
Annette Dent, Pauline Lynn, Ian Yang, Paul Zimmerman

AP 08 THE CLINICAL IMPACT OF ADOPTING NEW SPIROMETRIC REFERENCE EQUATIONS FOR OLDER PATIENTS
Robin Schoeffel and Keith Wong,

AP 09 THE IMPORTANCE OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL LIMIT SELECTION
Josh Stanton and Maureen P Swanney

AP 10 FEV6 WORKS AS WELL AS FVC IN DETERMINING A RESPONSE TO BRONCHODILATOR
Swanney MP, Beckert LE, Frampton CM, Wilson KL, Jensen RL and Crapo RO

AP 11 IMPROVEMENT IN SPIROMETRY POST LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
Debbie Murray BSc, GradCertRespSc, CRFS and Annette Dent CRFS

AP 12 CHEST HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (HRCT) AND LUNG FUNCTION INDICATE HETEROGENEITY OF ASTHMA EXACERBATIONS
Conrad Soh, Paul Guy, Paul Finlay, Soo Wei Foo, Mauritz Swellengrebel, Thomas Yik, Janine Ivanovic, Parmand Naidoo, Philip Bardin.

AP 13 AN OVINE TRACHEAL PERFUSION MODEL FOR STUDYING MUCOCILIARY FUNCTION
Stanislav Tatkov & Rodger J. Pack.

AP 14 USING CONTINUOUS AIFLOW UNDERESTIMATES THE AIRWAY EPITHELIAL CHANGES CAUSED BY REDUCED ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY IN VITRO.
Katherine Tolmey,* Stuart N. Ryan** & Rodger J. Pack*.

AP 15 FIT TO FLY? PREDICITING THE NEED FOR INFLIGHT OXYGEN IN AT RISK INFANTS
Maureen Verheggen, Nok Udomittipong, Jan Oostryck, Stephen M. Stick, Peter D. Sly and Graham L. Hall.