Pulmonology & Critical Care

The Section of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine offers evaluation, consultation, treatment and medical management of diseases involving the lungs and services involving the diagnosis and support of critically ill patients. The Section includes physicians with expertise in mechanical ventilation, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, nutritional support, and management of patients in shock. Additional services include a comprehensive pulmonary function laboratory, comprehensive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation and education program, exercise physiology studies, inhalation challenge studies, fiberoptic bronchoscopy including cryotherapy, stent replacement, and enclobronchial brachytherapy. In addition, percutaneous lung biopsy is offered as well as transtracheal oxygen therapy. Specializations of the Section include management of critically ill patients, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease, bronchogenic carcinoma, sleep apnea syndromes, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and exercise cardiopulmonary stress testing.

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