OVERVIEW

The Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine offers a comprehensive array of outpatient services for general as well as highly-specialized problems involving the respiratory system. The outpatient practices are housed on the 5th floor of the UCSF Ambulatory Care Center, and are open Monday-Friday 8AM - 5PM. Our multidisciplinary approach to diagnosis, management and education results in an extraordinarily high level of care and patient satisfaction. Our nationally- and internationally-known faculty are responsible for more than 4,500 patient visits each year.

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
• Aerosolized pentamidine
• Comprehensive care of the patient with complicated lung disease
• Assessment of pre-operative risk
• Pulmonary consultation for complicated cases in which an additional opinion is desired
• Patient education
• Highly specialized care for asthma, cystic fibrosis, interstitial lung disease, sleep disorders, occupational lung disease, lung transplantation