Wednesday 8 January 2014

Why choose pediatric care at times of pulmonary diseases?

People suffering from lung and respiratory disorders must take pulmonary pediatric treatment. The pediatricians work closely on patients who are suffering from pulmonary and critical care emergencies, tuberculosis, asthma, pneumonia, chronic lung disease, lung tumors, respiratory failure and sleep apnoea. ​

In Staten Island, the department of pulmonary medical group physicians is divided into various sections which help provide comprehensive care to patients. The departments are as follows:

Pulmonary function lab


This department undertakes the tests and diagnoses of the patients suffering from pulmonary diseases. These that are conducted in this lab are of spirometry, lung volumes, diffusion capacity, respiratory drive, bronchoprovocation test, allergic skin test, airway resistance and chest wall compliance.

Bronchoscopy suite

To diagnose the problem in lung, therapeutic bronchoscopy test is conducted. The test comprise of a bronchoscopy suite with video bronchoscope. It is a technique of visualizing the lungs airway problem via the instrument called bronchoscope.

Interventional pulmonology


Some advanced diagnoses which cannot be treated during the bronchoscopy suite are treated in advanced bronchoscopy techniques like foreign body removal, Transbronchial lymph node aspiration, Bronchial stents, Electrocautery for Endobronchial lesions and Endobronchial brachytherapy.

Asthma & allergic disease

People who are allergic and prone to asthma, they can get a specialized treatment in the department of allergy and asthma testing. A proper counseling is provided to patients suffering from all types of allergic respiratory disease.

Respiratory intensive care unit


Many times when treatment is not making the patient cure and it has led to respiratory failure, at that time a fully equipped respiratory ICU is available for those patients. The ICU comprises of advanced ventilators and bipap machines which help provide patients best possible care.

What services are offered in the medical group that offers pulmonary pediatric treatment care?

  • Twenty-four hour state-of-the-art in-patient care is provided for pulmonary and critical care patients.
  • Non-invasive and chronic ventilator services are there in the medical group.
  • Patients who can’t quite smoking for them there is a specialized clinic that helps patients out in smoking cessation.
  • A sleep laboratory is there that help out in carrying the diagnosis and therapy of sleep related breathing disorders.
  • CT scans of spiral are easily available.
  • A fully equipped laboratory is there in the medical group that performs tuberculosis, fungal and routine bacterial culture studies, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for TB and various serological tests.
  • Customized exercises and education is also a part of treatment that is provided to patients in the clinic.

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