âA video diary was kept during the trip and has been used to produce a TV documentary.â âThroughout the study, participants kept a daily symptom diary and completed a quality-of-life questionnaire.â âA travel diary recording all activities is also required to be kept by members in these circumstances.â âMeanwhile, the diaries reveal a later life of flamboyant perversity.â âNelson's well-chosen diary extracts are, apart from anything else, hilarious.â
Your lungs are complex organs, but what they do is take a gas that your body needs to get rid of (carbon dioxide) and exchange it for a gas that your body can use (oxygen). Â­In this article, we will take a close look at how your lungs work and how they keep your body's cells supplied with oxygen and get rid of the carbon dioxide waste. to fail.
Lung function tests (also called pulmonary function tests) assess how well your lungs work. These tests measure: 1  how quickly you can move air in and out of your lungs. 2  how much air they can hold. 3  how well they transfer oxygen into, and remove carbon dioxide from, your blood.