Respiratory Care
Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville 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 for conditions such as:
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Emphysema
- Lung cancer
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism and hypertension
- Sleep apnea
Pulmonary specialists provide a range of inpatient and outpatient breathing treatment services, including:
- Arterial blood gas sampling and analysis
- Artificial ventilatory life support
- EEG and EKG
- Holter monitoring and scanning
- Lung function studies
- Pulmonary function testing
- Respiratory therapy services
- Stress testing