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    Lung Care

    Breathing is Fundamental
    That’s why we’re here.

    Vaughan Regional Medical Center provides diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services for diseases that affect breathing and lung function. The pulmonary team focuses on the health of the respiratory system, using procedures such as bloodwork, bronchoscopy (a procedure that allows a doctor to look directly at the lungs using a thin, lighted tube), chest X-rays, CT scans, pulmonary function tests including spirometry, and sleep studies.

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    What We Treat

    Vaughan Regional Medical Center provides diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services for diseases that affect breathing and lung function. The pulmonary team focuses on the health of the respiratory system, using procedures such as bloodwork, bronchoscopy (a procedure that allows a doctor to look directly at the lungs using a thin, lighted tube), chest X-rays, CT scans, pulmonary function tests including spirometry, and sleep studies. The team works collaboratively with an interdisciplinary group of specialists, including cardiologists, interventional radiologists, pulmonologists, surgeons, and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care for conditions such as:

    • Allergies
    • Asthma
    • Asbestos-related lung disease
    • Chronic bronchitis
    • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
    • Cystic fibrosis
    • Emphysema
    • Interstitial lung disease
    • Lung cancer
    • Lung nodules
    • Occupational lung diseases
    • Pneumonia
    • Pulmonary hypertension
    • Respiratory failure
    • Sarcoidosis (a condition that causes your immune system to overreact and produce lumps or nodules)
    • Sleep disorders
    • Other pulmonary-related diseases
     
     
    The doctor is using stethoscope, a medical device that all doctors need. In listening to the lungs, heart sounds, and sounds produced by other organs of the patient It is a medical device.

    Breathing Treatment Services

    Our pulmonary specialists provide inpatient and outpatient breathing treatment services, including:

    • Arterial blood gas sampling and analysis
    • Bronchial hygiene therapy
    • Evaluation for home care needs, including patient education, and referrals for oxygen and respiratory therapy equipment
    • Lung function studies
    • Oxygen studies, including nighttime, exercise, and resting studies

    Whatever your respiratory disease or issue, the team at Vaughan Regional wants to help you better manage your condition so you can do the things you want to do.

     
     

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    Whatever your respiratory disease or issue, the team at Vaughan Regional wants to help you better manage your condition so you can do the things you want to do.

    Learn more about our pulmonary services and expert respiratory care or schedule an appointment. 

     
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    A physician that specializes in lung function is called a pulmonologist. Find one here.

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