This specialty focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with illnesses that affect the lungs, breathing and sleep. Specialists diagnose and treat diseases such as asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, acute and chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung infections are some of the areas a pulmonologist treat.
Pulmonologists collaborate with colleagues in Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology and surgeons in other specialties to provide comprehensive and effective treatment for patients.
The critical care physicians provide an integrated, multidisciplinary system of patient care provided to patients who have, or are at risk for, single or multiple major organ failure.