PULMONOLOGIST is a doctor who has special training in diagnosing and treating diseases of the lungs
Pulmonology is considered a branch of medicine, and Pulmonology often involves managing patients who need life support and mechanical ventilation. Pulmonologists are specially trained in diseases and conditions of the chest, particularly pneumonia, asthma, tuberculosis, emphysema,
Although pulmonary medicine only began to evolve as a medical specialty in the 1950s, William Welch and William Osler founded the ‘parent’ organization of the American Thoracic Society. the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
The care, treatment, and study of tuberculosis of the lung is recognised as a discipline in its own right, phthisiology. When the specialty did begin to evolve, several discoveries were being made linking the respiratory system and the measurement of arterial blood gases, attracting more and more physicians and researchers to the developing field complicated chest infections
Interventional pulmonology is a relatively new field within pulmonary medicine that deals with the use of procedures such as bronchoscopy and pleuroscopy to treat several pulmonary diseases. Interventional pulmonology is increasingly recognized as a specific medical specialty.
The pulmonologist begins the diagnostic process with a general review focusing on:
Physical diagnostics are as important as in other fields of medicine.
Clinical procedures
Pulmonary clinical procedures include the following pulmonary tests and procedures:[21][22]