Respiratory Care
Longview Regional Medical Center provides a wide variety of diagnostic, preventive and treatment services for diseases that affect breathing and lung function. Pulmonary doctors (pulmonologists) work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary group of specialists, including cardiologists, interventional radiologists, surgeons and other health care professionals to provide care.
Pulmonary specialists provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient breathing treatment services, including:
- Pulmonary function tests - diagnostic tests that help to measure the lungs' ability to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide appropriately.
- Bronchoscopy - a procedure that allows the physician to directly visualize the interior passageways of the lower respiratory tract through a bronchoscope.
- Arterial blood gas - a blood test that is used to evaluate the lungs' ability to provide blood with oxygen and remove carbon dioxide, and to measure the pH (acidity) of the blood.