Pulmonary
Pulmonary clinics are held on Tuesdays on the second floor of our Outpatient Specialty Clinics with Dr. Timothy Smith, Pulmonologist.
Timothy W. Smith, MD, FCCPBoard Certified – Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Medicine and Internal Medicine Bates County Memorial Hospital |
Pulmonary Medicine is a subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the respiratory track. A Pulmonologist has expertise in the evaluation of patients with breathlessness, cough, wheezing, and chest tightness, as well as abnormalities of the chest x-ray, chest CT scan and other chest imaging studies.
Common pulmonary disorders include:
- Asthma
- Emphysema
- Chronic Bronchitis
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Sarcoidosis
- Occupational Lung Disease
- Pneumonia
- Lung Cancer and Tumors
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Respiratory Failure
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis