Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

Services Provided

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Critical Care Medicine

Interventional Pulmonology

Sleep Disorders Center

Pulmonary Function Testing and Physiology

Pulmonary Hypertension

Critical Care Medicine

Our Critical Care medicine program has the most advanced technology needed to care for the critically ill. The care of the critically ill patient and family is provided in a compassionate and safe environment.

The critical care team is multidisciplinary in nature and led by attending physicians board-certified in pulmonary and critical care medicine and assisted by critical care fellows, residents and medical students, experienced registered nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, nutritionists and social workers. Our medical team uses an evidence-based medicine approach.

Interventional Pulmonology

The Interventional Pulmonology (IP) section – headed by Dominic de Keratry, M.D., an expert in interventional procedures – specializes in providing comprehensive care to patients with diseases of the central airways (the main trachea and bronchi) and the pleura (the space between the lungs and the chest wall). Our team includes expert physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists dedicated to providing the highest quality of personalized care.

Our IP team is part of the multi-disciplinary lung cancer board at Scott & White that consists of medical and radition oncologists, pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, pathologists, and radiologists.

Intervention Pulmonology Services

• Bronchoscopy
• Pleural Disease
• Other

Sleep Disorders Center

Our Sleep Disorders Center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. It is headed by Francisco Perez-Guerra, M.D. and Carl Boethel, M.D. We specialize in evaluating and treating patients in our clinic and state-of-the-art accredited sleep laboratory by board-certified sleep specialists.

During your stay in our sleep laboratory, you will be seen by well-trained technologists who place a special emphasis on your confidentiality, comfort and privacy.

Pulmonary Function Testing and Physiology

The Pulmonary Laboratory - headed by William G. Petersen, M.D. - specializes in objectively, accurately and efficiently measuring lung function that is vital to the evaluation and management of many lung disorders. In all aspects, our Lab meets or exceeds the recommended standards established by the American Thoracic Society.

Our staff performs over 425 studies a month for both adult and pediatric patients. Most test results are available to the physician within a few hours.

Services Provided

• Spirometry
• Pulmonary Profiles (Static Lung Volume)
• Methacholine Challenge (Exercise)
• Diffusion Capacity
• High Altitude Simulation Testing
• Arterial Blood Gases/Shunt Studies
• Basic Metabolic Rates
• Simple Exercise Study
• Complex Exercise Testing

Pulmonary Hypertension

We provide outstanding care to hundreds of patients with this diagnosis every year. Our multidisciplinary team, led by experienced physicians, uses the latest equipment and diagnostic techniques to diagnose and treat pulmonary arterial hypertension. We use the most currently available treatment modalities and we actively participate in clinical research projects.

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