OVERVIEW

The Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine provides consultative services for problems involving the respiratory system for patients hospitalized at UCSF Moffitt-Long Hospitals. These services are available 24-hours/day. All activities of the Division are integrated, bringing clinical and research faculty, basic scientists, clinical and research fellows, nursing, and technical staff together to provide the best possible state-of-the-art care.

OUR SERVICES

• Pulmonary consultation for patients with known or undiagnosed lung diseases
• Diagnostic procedures, including bronchoscopy, pleural biopsy, pleurodesis, stent placement, sleep studies, sputum induction, physiologic testing
• Assessment of pre-operative risk
• Highly specialized care for asthma, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, sleep disorders, occupational lung disease, lung transplantation