Pulmonary Department
Pulmonary Critical Care physicians offer a broad array of diagnostic and management skills to treating patients with respiratory and sleep disorders as well as the critically ill.
In addition to specialty consultation, the pulmonary department offers:
Pulmonary Function Testing:
Basic to complex lung function testing
Exercise physiology
Arterial blood gas analysis
Patient Education
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures:
Conventional bronchoscopy with biopsy
Endobronchial Ultrasound guided biopsy
Electromagnetic Navigational bronchoscopy
Pleural drainage procedures
Pleurx catheter insertion and management
Pleuroscopy with pleural biopsy and talc pleurodesis
Sleep Lab:
Overnight Polysomnogram
Daytime sleep study
Actigraphy (sleep watch)
Titration of CPAP
Respiratory Therapy:
Mechanical Ventilation
Oxygen therapy
CPAP
Airway management
Blood Acid-base balance
Critical Care medicine