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The purpose of a lung function test is to determine the performance and efficiency your lungs have at present. Individual tests can thus provide hints of a possible illness. Even if a part of the lung or a whole lobe needs to be removed, these tests provide important information for assessing the outcome of the operation.

As part of the lung function test, you are requested (after prompting) to gently breath in or out. Measurements are then taken via a flexible tube attached to a mouth piece. The full lung function examination itself consists of a variety of such tests. Together, these provide information about how much air the lung can take in, the force with which a person can in-and exhale, and how good the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide is.     

Lung function tests are performed in the Department III of Internal Medicine (focus Pneumology).

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