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GOALS

  • To provide state of the art pulmonary patient care with the highest quality and compassion.
  • Advance this state-of-the-art through biomedical research, and
  • Teach residents, interns, medical students and other trainees the knowledge and skills to sustain this mission into the future.

OBJECTIVES

The Pulmonary Unit aims to:

  • Provide a well coordinated team to give optimal care to pulmonary patients at the West Visayas State University Medical Center.
  • Offer expert yet affordable diagnostic and therapeutic pulmonary services to patients in need for such.
  • Provide professional ancillary services to aid the hospital’s health caregivers in the proper pulmonary care for their patients;
  • Educate resident physicians, medical students, nurses, paramedical personnel and other interested personnel in the proper assessment and treatment of pulmonary cases and the delivery of good pulmonary care;
  • Organize programs for patient education regarding their conditions;
  • Provide venue for research.

FUNCTIONS

The Pulmonary Unit has the following functions:

  • Performs pulmonary function test.
  • Arterial blood gas analysis.
  • Provides mechanical ventilations in the hospital setting.
  • Administers per-operative respiratory care (Including Incentive Spirometry)
  • Peak Flow Rate Monitoring (PFRM)
  • Administers Nebulization Theraphy (Pulmo aide inhalation & In-line nebulization) to ICU Complex patients.
  • Provides non-invasive ventilation such as : CPAP/BIPAP