The Pulmonary Diseases branch of Internal Medicine is diagnosing and managing disorders of the lungs, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (i.e. chronic bronchitis, emphysema), asthma, hypersensitivity lung diseases, environmental and occupational lung diseases, lung cancer, cystic fibrosis, and infectious lung diseases. State of the art diagnostic services are provided including flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy, pleural biopsy, exercise evaluation, and full pulmonary function testing.
Intensive Care or Critical Care Medicine is concerned with providing greater than ordinary medical care and observation to patients in a critical or unstable condition. Critical Care provides attending coverage in the Medical Intensive Care Unit with continuous patient monitoring and data management systems.
Sleep Medicine concentrates on patients who have difficulties staying asleep, falling asleep, insomnia, sleep apnea, CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), restless leg syndrome, OSA (obstructive sleep apnea), snoring, narcolepsy, nocturnal enuresis, and night terrors. The staff that makes up the sleep medicine teams are experts from the fields of adult pulmonary, geriatrics/internal medicine, neurology, pediatric pulmonary, otolaryngology, psychiatry, and cardiology. Diagnosis and treatment for adults and children are done with outpatient and inpatient sleep laboratories, sleep medicine clinics, and the dedicated medical and technical staff.
