Pulmonary Care
Our pulmonary medicine physicians provide comprehensive clinical care to patients of all ages, on an inpatient and outpatient basis. They treat a wide range of conditions and offer the latest diagnostic procedures. North Shore Medical Center has a comprehensive outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation program at NSMC Union Hospital. In addition, several of our pulmonary physicians are affiliated with our Sleep Center.
Conditions treated include:
- Acute Lung Injury
- Acute Respiratory Distress
- Asthma
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Emphysema
- Environmental lung disease
- Lung disease
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Respiratory failure
- Sarcoidosis
- Sepsis
- Severe sepsis
- Tuberculosis
Special tests and procedures available include:
- Bronchoscopy
- Chest X-ray
- CT scan
- Lobectomy
- Lung biopsy
- Lung scan
- Mediastinoscopy
- Oximetry
- Peak flow measurement
- Pleural biopsy
- Positron Emission Tomography (PET scan)
- Pulmonary function tests
- Sinus X-ray
- Sleep study
- Thoracentesis
